Bare essential guages for track use?

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19-01-2013, 08:05 PM

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Bare essential guages for track use?

As above really, what would you recommend as essential guages for hard use/track days?

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19-01-2013, 08:07 PM

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oil pressure/temp
AFR
water temp
revs

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19-01-2013, 08:10 PM

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or for the full race effect

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19-01-2013, 08:38 PM

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oil pressure
AFR ?
water temp
revs
fuel gauge ?

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19-01-2013, 09:06 PM

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Afr=air fuel ratio

Id of said ..
oil pressure poss oil temp
Water temp
Boost if turbo/supercharged
Afr or egt
Fuel gauge

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19-01-2013, 09:25 PM

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Bare minimum are revs, water temp and fuel. Others mentioned above are good options but not exactly essential. Loads of road cars on track don't have these options and manage ok.

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19-01-2013, 09:34 PM

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Bare minimum are revs, water temp and fuel. .

thats all you need as you want to be paying attention to the track not gauges lol

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19-01-2013, 09:36 PM

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Oil temp/pressure will do you fine Over standard not much point having air/fuel gauges just for trackdays as you won't be watching them and unless you have a stand alone ecu and a laptop with you won't be able to do nothing about it any way

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19-01-2013, 09:40 PM

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Get gauges that have warning signs like Defi's. they flash and beep if they reach a present number

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19-01-2013, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay,

thats all you need as you want to be paying attention to the track not gauges lol

Exactly, you don't really need any. It just depends how much money you want to throw at your car. As long as you know you've got fuel in, your ears can gauge revs and when it goes bang.

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