Water temp gauge

[2ndnissan]

I'm looking at putting a "red Heat" series cyberdyne digital engine temp gauge into my 240 and locating it where the din pockets are. They do require a separate sender and it has 1/8 th inch pipe thread. How would I adapt this to the stock sending unit on the car? Are there metric to standard adapters in hardware stores or am I going to have to tap the manifold to use this? Has anyone else ever used these gauges?

[White Comet]

what lots of ppl do for after market gauges is get an electronic one and tap into the stock sensor wiring. you can also get a rad hose adapter with a sensor bung

[dbrass240]

frsport.com has a DIF waterneck adapter which has a 1/8 npt fitting - i believe they also have a Stance brand also . . . the DIF comes with groove and seal though..... (its for sr though)

put an adapter in your rad hose if nothing else - looks ghetto, but whatever..

[dbrass240]

also look into autometer's ultralite 2 gauges -

i have a set of three of em - boost, water temp, and oil temp

very nice and i love the way they lite at night - much easier to read than those gauges you're lookin at!

[White Comet]

nah the rad hose adapter wont look ghetto if its nicely done. the sohc's had one stock

[darkvillin]

also look into autometer's ultralite 2 gauges -

i have a set of three of em - boost, water temp, and oil temp

very nice and i love the way they lite at night - much easier to read than those gauges you're lookin at!

are u using the electronic or the mechanical gauges in ur car? i see 2 electrical (one that goes up to 280, one that goes to 240) and 1 mechanical. i dont know the differences n ive always wanted to do this.

also, yashio factory had a fitting for a water temp gauge in that super sexy pink color. u can pick that up too.

[dbrass240]

my water temp is electronic b/c of the 1/8 npt fitting that came with it. i believe the mechanical one came with a 1/4 npt fitting or something

[2ndnissan]

Are the ultralite 2's digital? All I saw on the autometer site were the analog gauges. I wanted red digital ..mostly because all my radio buttons are red ..and the dials digital..so it would blend in very well. I also wanted black bezels to fit in with the black felt I've got on the din "cover" I made. Are digitals as accurate as analogs ? I DO want something that is really functional. If analogs are more accurate the es series by autometer looked kind of nice and were a good buy. I think I'll go with the "in Hose" adapter from frsports. I have an sohc and it can't get anymore ghetto*lol*. I'll just have to locate it higher up on the hose. Thanks for the help! I had just found the cyberdynes on the Jeds site...had never heard of the brand and wondered if they were decent gauges....
Modified by 2ndnissan at 12:28 PM 9/26/2009

[dbrass240]

they come in mechanical (analog) and electrical - if i'm not mistaken, electrical usually put out a smoother and more accurate reading . . .

check this video out . ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAix5Mpk-mo

(those arent the ultra lite 2's in the video, btw)