What else have I been up to..?
I decided not to run the capillary oil pressure gauge (oil line running into the car
). So in order to run an electric oil pressure gauge I've started this process. There's probably a Smiths gauge out there that would bolt right in, but what fun would that be?
Bought a Stewart Warner 0-100PSI gauge off eBay.
It has the correct 90* sweep to use my gauge face-plate
Researched the proper sending unit specs for the gauge (240-33ohms for 0-100PSI) and found this VDO unit (don't mind the exhaust wrap. It's for a future installment).
S2000's don't have an oil pressure gauge, just and ID10T light. So a T-fitting allows me to run both:
Integration of the SW gauge into the Sunbeam dash:
Upper right location in the pic is the existing oil gauge (had already attempted to use a water temp gauge with oil pressure face-plate but could not find a sender with the correct range or span)
SW gauge size reference:
Guts pulled and already clearanced as needed:
Where it's going:
Face-plate also required a little mod:
Zero-Stop post added:
Work in progress...
Tapping for stand-offs:
...and that's as far as I have pics of. I'm a little further along and it looks like it will work out very nicely.