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Old 03-11-2010, 10:00 AM
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installing boost gauge

where can i get a vacuum source to hook up my boost gauge? i know its major rice to have a boost gauge and no f/i... but i have the turbo kit i just need to install it.

the brake booster is too big and the evap is hard plastic... unless i change it from plastic to rubber, i see no way to install it shy of buying an $8 fitting and tapping the manifold.
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I replaced my factory boost gauge with AEM's digital one. I taped here and I have boost and vacuum now...

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i wish it was that easy... im not direct injection so i cant use that method.
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oh yea derr...lol. My bad...good luck
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You won't be able too.... why don't you just wait till you have your setup on before you install a gauge that does nothing for you right now
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bc i want to go ahead and get it done so its ready when i put my turbo on
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Originally Posted by 09blackonblack
bc i want to go ahead and get it done so its ready when i put my turbo on
im putting a boost gauge in my car now, there should be a small port on the manifold that has a rubber boot on it, hook the gauge to that, im putting on the boost gauge now then waiting for you to finish your build thread to ad the turbo
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the l61 manifold has the nipple. im a lap so i dont have one
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how did the boost gauge turn out?

Originally Posted by 09blackonblack
the l61 manifold has the nipple. im a lap so i dont have one
oh crap! i got LAP too, on the driver side of the manifold there is tubing comming out of it, is therea way to use that?

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it lights up but thats it... i had to go out of state for a wedding before i could finish it.
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yeah i got LAP too, i didnt install the gauge yet but there is tubing that runs off the intake mani on the driver side.....can we use that to hook it up?
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i would have to see a pic, but either line will work. just the evap line is plastic and hard to do it with. and you say your manifold has a vacuum nipple?
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i dont have the nipple, my friend said that he hooked his up witht the nipple but i think he has a L61, so if i cut part of the hard plastic evap line, put in a rubber tubing, then put a vacume T between it, i can install the boost gauge?
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Originally Posted by cobalt523
i dont have the nipple, my friend said that he hooked his up witht the nipple but i think he has a L61, so if i cut part of the hard plastic evap line, put in a rubber tubing, then put a vacume T between it, i can install the boost gauge?
thats what i did to hook my vacuum gauge up. cut the the line, put the T in there, then ran the tube to the gauge. and its worked for almost a year and half with no problems
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Originally Posted by reaper89
thats what i did to hook my vacuum gauge up. cut the the line, put the T in there, then ran the tube to the gauge. and its worked for almost a year and half with no problems
what does that evap line do?
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