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Need quick replies please, i'll be doing this today!

I am putting some aftermarket gauges into my car:

Water temp, Oil pressure & Oil temp.

I already know that i can't remove the factory water temp sender near the thermostat housing, as this reports back to the ECU the engine temp. I've already had a friend fabricate an alloy "T" pipe to splice into the top radiator hose, with a fitting welded onto it to take the water temp sender. That's sorted...

But...

Would i be interfering with the ECU or car in any way by removing the stock oil pressure sender (just below the inlet plenum & AAC valve) and stock oil temp sender (behind the oil filter and close to the block) and fitting the senders that were supplied with the gauges?

I was feeling pretty confident that it was ok, before i had a closer look at noticed alot more wiring than i thought there'd be coming from these senders in the wiring loom...

Thanks for the quick replies in advance.

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Hmm, 31 views, no replies, thanks guys! :D

At least you can learn from my experiences here:

Well, i've fitted the oil pressure gauge with no problems at all, works well. Much better than the original gauge that has all sorts of problems reading accurately.

Only problem i did come across was that the OE Nissan oil temperature sender is a VERY obscure thread size. A very rare M12x1.25 thread. Realising that a 1/8"NPT threaded sender won't fit, i went to my local Enzed and had no luck with getting an adaptor. Same story at Pirtek, they said only M12x1.5 thread is the most common and doesn't even come close..

Plan B, decided to test the original Nissan sender against the sender supplied with the gauge. This involved getting out my multimeter, digital thermometer and tested the resistance of both senders at different temps in a saucepan of water on the stove!! :bahaha:

No good there, the senders both having completely different ohm ranges.

Plan C, tried looking through VDO's catalogue for an appropriate sender. Turns out that their only sender in the thread that i was after also had the wrong ohms range.

Looks like the oil temperature gauge stays off for the time being until i can figure out a way to get an adaptor fabricated or find a suitable means of fitting this gauge.

Any suggestions?

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I hate to bring back my own thread again, but, don't you hate it when you spend the time, money and effort in engineering a one-off part to do something (in this case an adaptor for a water temp sender) and you could have bought something like this:

hose_atc.jpg

But my reason for this post, was whether anyone has seen this oil filter sandwich adaptor for sale anywhere here in Australia? It would help me alot if i could get ahold of this product to help hook up my oil temperature gauge (as i discussed above):

sensor_atc.jpg

The following pic, you can just make out that it's the threads i need, M12x1.25 and 1/8"NPT.

It will need to suit the thread of the oil filter to suit an R32 GTR as well.

sensor_ill.GIF

Thanks.

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I ll bring this thread from dead again, for people's future information. Ring Mark from Motorsport Connections in Seven Hills, they can manufacture an adapter for oil/water temp/pressure.

Addr.: 15/4A Foundry Rd, Seven Hills

tel.: 98387272

I haven't had mine done yet (waiting for oil change). I ll post how I wen when they are done.

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