Mechanical boost gauge

4bt4me · 03-27-2020, 01:43 PM

Is anyone running a mechanical boost gauge? Every boosted vehicle I have ever owned ended up with a manual boost gauge, it's just nice to know where it is at and I just want one.

Any good solutions available? Is there even a port to get a reference from?

Rockyca · 03-27-2020, 02:00 PM

You should be able to tap any vac line I assume?

SC_B5X · 03-28-2020, 01:47 AM

No vacuum lines on the B58, you'll have to have a chargepipe with a meth bung or the BMS throttlebody spacer to tap into.

kern417 · 03-28-2020, 06:15 AM

Someone found this and seems like the best plug and play option for boost reference. However, I don't know of any gauges/pods that won't look out of place in our cars.

http://www.p3cars.com/bmw/p3-boost-tap-bmw-b48-b58/

Wires · 03-28-2020, 05:22 PM

No, but I do have the P3 cars left driver vent replacement digital gauge. Had to buy the BMS charge pipe water injection spacer so I had an analog tap port for the boost gauge since the F30 no longer.

Works great, and has a nice clean finish when installed.

This is what I use:
https://www.p3cars.com/bmw/p3-analog...f8x-2011-2019/

And bought the water injection spacer:
https://burgertuning.com/products/b5...ethanol-spacer

They have a full digital OBDII version, but that didn't work for me at the time since I was running a puggyback. Now that I'm tuned, I wish I would have.

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Wires Brigadier General 1646 Rep 4,877 Posts Drives: 2016 340i xDrive Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Calgary iTrader: (0)	No, but I do have the P3 cars left driver vent replacement digital gauge. Had to buy the BMS charge pipe water injection spacer so I had an analog tap port for the boost gauge since the F30 no longer. Works great, and has a nice clean finish when installed. This is what I use: https://www.p3cars.com/bmw/p3-analog...f8x-2011-2019/ And bought the water injection spacer: https://burgertuning.com/products/b5...ethanol-spacer They have a full digital OBDII version, but that didn't work for me at the time since I was running a puggyback. Now that I'm tuned, I wish I would have.
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