Is it bad if a my used autometer boost gauge is at 3 psi when he's unhooked?
if its mechanical yes , itll be 3 psi off
Another Autometer gauge that isn't calibrated...what a shocker.
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5K PB: 24:50
10K PB: 54:26
Mine isnt hooked up right now and its on like 1 psi but sometimes its at 0 also.
when unhooked min was at 0. i played with it with a hose(i don't suck so well) and it would come up to like 3psi but go right back to zero.
Team Vision Racing (aka hypsy) wrote:Another Autometer gauge that isn't calibrated...what a shocker.
its not matter of the calibration
its the fact people who use them dont know what they are doing and over tighten the fittings on the back and only use 1 toll to remove them
Agree^^^^^^
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autometers tend to be off which is dumb i havent had mine off but you hear about it constantly.
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I have an autometer pro comp ultra light boost gauge. Mine is not hooked up and reads around 1 psi. Is there anyway to calibrate it? Will it be accurate if I do not do any thing to it and just hook it up?
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Team Vision Racing (aka hypsy) wrote:Another Autometer gauge that isn't calibrated...what a shocker.
its not matter of the calibration
its the fact people who use them dont know what they are doing and over tighten the fittings on the back and only use 1 toll to remove them
Oh it is by far a issue of calibration. One of my best friends had an Autometer gauge that read at 4PSI from the day he got the package. He now has a Stewart Warner and that hasn't been off zero while the car is off in 3 years now. Autometer has a GIANT (like 5PSI range size) zero zone for a reason...they can't calibrate their @!#$. Stewart Warner on the other hand has the zero spot as just another line like every other reading. That's how it should be.
I used to race cars, now I race myself.
5K PB: 24:50
10K PB: 54:26
My Stewart Warner gauge points at zero when the car's off.
my autometer guage is perfect, both my boost and nitrious guages work awsome.
yeah.my autometer is on 0.
I had that innitial problem in the beginning it ended up being the plastic hose that was used for the vaccum/boost was sorta kinked so I shortened it to the exact lenght and now my phaze gauges are at zero when the car is turned off. its also a mechanical sweep kind.
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Wade Jarvis wrote:I have an autometer pro comp ultra light boost gauge. Mine is not hooked up and reads around 1 psi. Is there anyway to calibrate it? Will it be accurate if I do not do any thing to it and just hook it up?
Can anyone shed some light on the last two ?s
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if you just hook it up it will be 1psi out. judging from what they have been saying about the fittings, if you hold the fitting with a wrench and the guage in your hand so you can watch, you turn the fitting ever so slightly till the guage goes back to 0. not 100% but that's the idea i'm getting from a couple of previous posts about people over tightening the fitting and not using 2 wrenches to hold it.
As for whether it's accurate... if you know anyone else with a boost gauge that works, you can tee it in and run them side by side to see how they compare.
I have the Ultralite as well, never had any calibration issues. Unless I'm making boost, it's stuck on 0.
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had the same issue with my DEFI 35 PSI boost gauge. It was a matter of adjusting how much vac. line I was running, and now it is perfect. Reads 20-25 PSI perfect
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