boost gauge question
 

Being new to tuning for SC set up, what is the deal with reading bars? How does this help anything, can I get a boost gauge that reads psi? Seems like this makes logical sense but I haven't seen one. Anyone make one that reads in psi?

Thanks for your info!

Autometer

Thanks!

1 BAR = 14.5psi.

I dont like there to be a whole lot of thinking involved when I'm reading my boost gauge so I currently have an Autometer but I plan on swapping that out with an AEM gauge.

Yeah seems like you would want to know if you are running at 7psi or 9 etc so reading in bars doesn't make sense to me. Does AEM make a psi gauge? I currently have their wideband ugo monitor.

I believe the AEM Tru Boost and the AEM Serial gauges both display psi.

Hey, if you deal in Metric then Bar makes complete sense. If you deal in PSi like people from the 19th century and americans, then PSi makes sense. ;)

tru boost displays psi, bar and something else i forget what.

Hey I realize Americans are mostly back woods even though I am one, not back woods however. My question is how does bar make sense in any measurement when its lowest point of measure is roughly 14 psi? How does that make sense when the majority of people are running below this point and or just need a precise form of measurement? How do you know if your running 7 or 8 psi when looking at a bar indicator? Thats like saying you need to measure the distance of 19" but are only given yards to measure this distance by. How does that work accurately? Bars just doesn't seem like an accurate form of measurement in any situation unless you are producing astronomical boost such as in the the hundreds, and even then your still only looking at bars with partial bars, no number indicated. Am I missing something :confused: Can you please explain this to me?

My god, inches, yards, cubics, drams, pennyweights. It's like a history lesson. :LOL:

Yes 1Bar is a large unit. That's why they invented the decimal point. Most Bar gauges have a reading of two decimal places.

It all comes back to the units you are used to. If you assume everything is psi then a psi gauge is what you want. But the modern world works in Bar. And meters and centimeters.

That's why you lost that Mars probe.