400 Bucks to install 3 gauges????

[carboncrazytc]

how much does it usually cost to get gauges installed?

[Nick06tC]

Deffinetly not $400.

What gauges? i will say its not easy at all. its tideuos and time consuming.
I did boost, egt, oil pressure and it can be a pain to do it correctly.

[navylife59]

Is that product/labor or just the labor? Don't let them charge extra for parts/labor cause everything to install a gauge should come with it. Shop around.

Installing gauges are relatively easy tasks. Can you tell us exactly what gauges and brand that you want to install? Let your brethern here at Club-tC help you out.

[carboncrazytc]

i got glow shift gauges i got a boost gauge oil pressure gauge and air fuel gauge that is just for labor lnsmotorsports is the only reputable place around they have a race team and a chasis dyno there serious people but that is a crazy price. and i think i need a universal single line 02 censor cause isnt the tc a wideband. and if i dont change that it wont read right.. right???

[carboncrazytc]

should i ask scion dealership??

[navylife59]

A dealership is going to up that price a bit.

The tC actually has 2 sensors for Air/Fuel mgmt. Bank1/S1 is the wideband air/fuel ratio sensor located in the OEM header, before the primary cat.. It is responsible for the main air/fuel calculation data for the ECM. Bank1/S2 is the narrowband O2 sensor. It is located in the s-pipe. This is after the primary cat and before the secondary cat. The 2AZ-FE is a EGR-less motor and the narrowband is there just to measure the overall efficiency of the wideband calculations so that VVT-i does not throw things out of proportion.


You will need to have another O2 bung welded in or near your header to mount your sensor. It needs to be close enough to the exhaust ports for an accurate reading but not so close as to get scorched by EGT's. I am running the PLX Devices wideband AF. It has a secondary output for narrowband that I send that data to my ECM. I have found that the AFR reads lean for the wideband data so readings are skewed for that. IT is connected to my Greddy Ult, but it does not tune it.

[Nick06tC]

Like nAVY said, you will need an aftermarket wideband 02 sensor. You cant just plug and tap.

I think the defi gauges are all mechanical. thats why they are cheaper. For boost, you simply t tap into the vacume like off the top of the BPV. I think your supercharged.
For oil pressure you will need to buy the greddy block adapter. It is an adapter the screws into where the oil filter is, then the oil filter screws into it. Then you tap into the side with the nylon tubbing running to the gauge. Some people tap oil pressure off the block, but the greddy adapter is safer and easier.

For the wideband, drill into the s pipe and hook up from there.

For power for everything, you will need add a fuse taps and tjust tap into the fuse box under the dash. Find a good ground and wire everything up. It s a days job if you take your time and do it correctly. (soldering, heat shrinking, zip tieing and all )

[carboncrazytc]

wow im totally lost hmmm... i have an oil filter sandwich adapter so thats taken care of so your saying i dont neeed to buy any more stuff to hook them up?

[Nick06tC]

Are all the gauges mechanical?

if so, then no you wont need anything else. The oil just goes into one of the taps on the side of the adapter. The plugs go on the other openings. Run it to the car and it will work. Then run power for the lighting.

[carboncrazytc]

yeah tehyre all mechanical

[Nick06tC]

Do it yoruself. I can walk you through it if you need help.

[ac3 b00gi3]

yea i advise self installation .. thats a rediculous price .. i was offered $50 a guage .. i walked out saying "thats too rich for my blood"

[carboncrazytc]

hey nick i might have tot ake you up on that offer.

[Nick06tC]

Let me know. I have lots of pictures of my installs.

[carboncrazytc]

im just too scared to even attempt something like that what if i screwed it up??

[navylife59]

Find a Scion club in your neck of the woods and solicite some help. Tell em Club-tC sent ya.

[carboncrazytc]

lol ill keep an eye out for some tc clubs. here in the south there few and far beetween.

[Kalvinz61]

south? where are you from?

[carboncrazytc]

knoxville tennessee.

[Nick06tC]

They have a SE chapter down there.