Gauge A pillar for convertibles

[SteveL]

I installed a 3 gauge pod A pillar in my car. Although easy to find pillars for coupes, there's only one company I found that has full pillars for convertibles. The company is Lo-Tek . Designed for a 2000 convertible, it will fit a 2001 (and newer) with some slight sanding to get the curves right.

I bought one pre-painted for parchment interior but the color was too light and didn't match. Matt (Roush2960) got me in touch with someone who does interior painting and I had him respray it. The color is 95% on and you wouldn't know it's not 100% unless I told you.

I installed a real oil pressure gauge, a better water temp gauge and a fuel pressure gauge. A oil temp gauge would be nice but fuel pressure is more critical on a supercharged motor so I went with that. It's not easy to see the full dials unless you're short or sit low in the car (I am and I do) as the pods are tightly grouped.

Overall a good addition.

[Mariob01GT]

very nice!


Are the guages mechanical or elctrical? Where abouts in the firewall did you run the wiring or tubing for all those guages?

[./M@]

Very nice...

./Matt

[SteveL]

They are electric gauges.

[Mariob01GT]

Where did you pass the wiring thru? What part of the firewall?
Also where did you connect the sending units to, where at on the engine?

I have a mechanical water temp sensor (autometer phantom series) that's sitting on my shelf as left over items from my 94. The mechanical sensor is a bitch to pass thru the firewall, hence why its still on the shelf... Maybe I should switch to electrical, if it's easier to hook up. I just don't want big bulky electrical sending units in my engine bay.

[roush2k]

Wow - those look great Steve. I will have to look into one. I would love to ditch my Frankenstein looking one....



ð kev

[ponyboy2000gt]

Did it take long to get the pillar in? Mine's been on order for 2 months!

[SteveL]

Getting the A pillar didn't take very long, a little over a week after ordering.

I had the gauges installed by a local Mustang shop. The wires were passed through the large firewall grommet, drivers side, just behind the instrument console. It's the same one pictured in Kev's gauge install writeup on this site.

I'll try to take pictures of the sensor locations. Some are really buried under the engine.

[DevilSun]

Very nice steve...must put that company link in favorites *drool*

[Roush32go]

Hey #92, how much did your speed shop charge you for the installation?

[SteveL]

It was about 4.5 hours worth of work. I had the subframe connectors installed at the same time and the gauge install wasn't broken out separately.

[Supacharge]

nice, that looks REAL good man. i am putting the 3 guage pod in mine this week. Boost, Air/Fuel, Volts...or Oil....not sure about the 3rd yet.