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Kyle... you'll have to forgive Tugly. He lies in wait just looking for any opportunity he can to post (yet again) a photo of his dashboard with his 7" tablet and his spiffy new wood and leather steering wheel to bludgeon us back for the hazing we gave him a couple of years ago with his old dirty original steering wheel. I see this same picture at least once a week on a surprising variety of threads... always well placed in appropriate context, and always gleaming with that spiffy new steering wheel.
He tows. He bought the truck to tow his boat, but ended up towing his big Buck$Zooka cannon instead, which is fairly light in weight, because it is always empty of rounds. He just can't seem to store enough ammo before firing off another one... so while there may be one in the chamber, there is usually nothing left in the ammo crate. There's a motor in that crate instead. Actually, a couple of motors. And a lot of hard knock experience.
I have my EGT gauge at eye level on the A pillar, but if my truck came with a handle on the A pillar, I'd probably prefer to keep the handle too, and would need to find a place for the EGT gauge (or gauges plural, in Tugly's case). It makes sense to want to monitor the gauge at eye level, but to my mind, it makes even MORE sense to have a programmable alarm that beeps or lights up when a predetermined thermal threshold is reached. And I think Tugly's Isspro EV2 gauges have some type of programmable warning light like that.
If I were to buy a new EGT gauge, I'd be sure and get one that offered the ability to preset an audible or visual light warning. That way, if I was enjoying the mountain scenery, or engaged in a heated election debate, or, heaven forbid, actually paying attention to the road, I wouldn't have to keep one eye on the gauge all the time... even though it sometimes is kind of fun to do, especially when on grades and trying to work just the right gear/rpm to keep momentum up and EGT's at bay.
Nice post , I was under the assumption a sweep type gauge had no alarm ability
I have my gauges in my head unit (no picture yet as I had to pull the head unit out so I could work on the dash a bit, but will take a pic when its in for good) and have most except the EGTs and Fuel pressure gauges in that, those will have to go to the pillar pod for those, and the fuel(attach to back side of fuel bowl) are -4 ORB to NPT (i think .25) threading...I do have a tablet type set up in the Mustang which works for that as that is OBD2 compliant any ways...
One amendment: I always have a reserve ammo depot that I save for emergencies - like a major breakdown on the road or the zombie apocalypse.
Yes - the ISSPRO EV2s you see in the picture have programmable alarms (if you buy the programming kit for $25) with a bright LED on the face. The EGTs come stock with a 1250 degree F alarm, but I lowered them to 1200 degrees for safety.
Why did I choose to put them so low? I live here:
There are no street lamps on my drive to work, no real traffic, no billboards, no buildings alongside the road... nothing but the reflection of the highway markers. There are deer, elk, big-horn sheep, bear, and the occasional moose crossing the road to get to the Columbia river for a sip. When I'm driving at night, the last thing I want is a Christmas tree in my face to blind me from seeing hundreds of pounds of meandering meat oblivious to my thousands of pounds of speeding steel. As it is, I always turn my dash gauges down to protect my night vision - so adding light sources between my face and the windshield would be akin to adding a keyboard to the steering wheel.
