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Originally Posted by extrashaky
There are such gauges available, and what you're describing shouldn't be too difficult. A lot of aircraft have dual oil pressure/temp gauges, and I know I have seen some automotive gauges modeled on them.
Keep in mind you already have oil temp available through OBDII. If you run Torque, you can display it. I prefer to pair oil temp with coolant temp, where you can see them follow each other. The coolant temp gauge on the dash is actually fake, so I almost completely ignore it now and just monitor my Torque dashboard instead.
Personally, I would prefer to replace the stock gauge cluster altogether rather than patching it here and there. The only thing on it that I actually use is the tach. As you said, the speedo is useless. I monitor my fuel in actual gallons remaining through torque. As I said above, the coolant gauge is fake in that it doesn't correspond to actual temperature. It hits the center "normal" position at about 170° and stays there at least up through 210°, which makes it little better than an idiot light.
I would really like a custom solution with a combination of needle gauges and a configurable Torque-like screen that matches the interior styling of the car. There are some custom dash options available, but to me they all look like they came right out of the 80s Knight Rider tv show. I'd like one that actually looks like it belongs in this car.
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Agree 100%, I'd much rather have a digital dash that allows configurable views of all monitoring, as well as size scaling, alerts, etc. Basically, a tablet crammed in there. But I figured that'd be pretty cost prohibitive, or at least very skill prohibitive (for me).
I may just go with a Torque option, but since oil pressure isn't viewable, I got to thinking about how to monitor oil as top concern. But seeing AFR, coolant temp, IAM/KC, and ethanol content (if possible?) would be awesome. Ideally it'd be in the cluster and not where the radio is, to keep glare down, and keep it easily viewable for the driver, but again, we're now talking about a complete overhaul of the cluster system.