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Old Jan 6, 2010 | 09:56 PM
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Laythor get's gauges part Deux

As some of you might remember, I felt the siren call of Jedi's RB gauge pod and Nordskog gauges and decided "Hell's yeah, I want me some of that".

For those of you that don't, please see here: https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tech-garage-22/cyberdyne-gauges-184343/

Ok, done reading? Yeah.. that was full of fail.

DO NOT BUY CYBERDYNE GAUGES. You would be better off just taking the money, making a pile on the ground, then setting it on fire.

I digress...

I purchased DEFI gauges ( http://www.defi-shop.com/product/rg/rg_top.html ) from my local rotary shop, Rotorsport (http://rotorsport2.com/). Ask for Paul, he's the best guy in the world and just loves the rotary engine. I also had Paul install them since the bad taste of my last failure still lingered.

They look great! They're just awesome and look perfect in person.. A word of warning to anyone buying these gauges, they use the Japanese thread pattern so you will need an adapter to connect them to the RB spacer plate. Luckily Paul is a distributor for RB so he knew this ahead of time and it wasn't an issue.

I took a quick video with my Droid phone. It's car running, turn off sequence, turn on sequence...
(the beeping sound you hear is my radar detector powering up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrG28laPgdY

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Old Jan 6, 2010 | 10:04 PM
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Sorry but, you're almost 1 year something 2 late.

LOL

Got Defi long time ago. and I will be switching the whole system (USing Defi Control Unit II + Defi Link Meter BF) to the Advance CR soon.
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Old Jan 6, 2010 | 10:09 PM
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LoL.. defi CUII came out over 4 years ago and the Link meter came out over 3 years ago.. so not like you're on the cutting edge there nycgps

The advance CR look amazing, but were a huge overkill for what i'm doing

Since I'm NA and not going boosted anytime soon I was looking for something that had a good reputation and looked the way I wanted them to... these fit the bill.
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Old Jan 6, 2010 | 11:10 PM
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they look awesome. look how smooth that oil pressure needle moves. quality right there.
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Old Jan 7, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Very nice Laythor.
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Old Jan 9, 2010 | 12:52 AM
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thanks easy.. after having them for a few days now i'm really really liking them even more
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Old Jan 9, 2010 | 01:34 AM
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they look awesome. look how smooth that oil pressure needle moves. quality right there.
I was thinking the same thing.
Glad to see you've got some new gauges in there, they look awesome!
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Old Jan 9, 2010 | 02:32 AM
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it's the best of both worlds.. they look awesome and they actually seem to be working after almost a week
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Old Jan 11, 2010 | 12:01 AM
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so the question is where do you mount an additional gauge, like a fuel pressure indicator?
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Old Jan 11, 2010 | 10:40 AM
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When I need AFR, FP, Boost.. those will be in a lotek pod on top of the dash
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