# Boost Gauges on SR...mech or elect?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286
**Category:** SON240sx Automotive
**Created:** [November 18, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286 "2003-11-18T16:25:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@mymonkey666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mymonkey666)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/1 "2003-11-18T16:25:49Z")
What do you think is best?
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### Author:  [@Racer\_XTREME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Racer_XTREME)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/2 "2003-11-18T17:05:44Z")
2 words for you.
“$9.00” and “Princess Auto” … wait i think that was 2 words and a number, either way.
adam, wheres the pic???
it’s a mechanical one and it works beautifully!!!
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### Author:  [@mymonkey666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mymonkey666)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/3 "2003-11-18T17:31:26Z")
Thanks, I’ll check it out
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### Author:  [@iQuAGoD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iQuAGoD)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/4 "2003-11-18T18:54:25Z")
Electric is better for things like oil pressure where you might not want to
have mechanical lines running into the cabin carrying scalding hot oil for
both safety and technical reasons. However, for something like boost it is
simpler just to use a mechanical gauge since there wont be any problems
if your plumbing breaks. For a boost gauge, I say save your money and
go mechanical.
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### Author:  [@mymonkey666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mymonkey666)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/5 "2003-11-18T19:22:07Z")
And thank you as well.
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### Author:  [@boMex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boMex)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/6 "2003-11-18T21:02:03Z")
Unless you dig that JDM bling 😉 Defi Link and other guages like them are only available in electric
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### Author:  [@Sasha\_SG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sasha_SG)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/7 "2003-11-19T05:09:45Z")
> [@boMex](#):
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> Unless you dig that JDM bling 😉 Defi Link and other guages like them are only available in electric
hehehe
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### Author:  [@Sasha\_SG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sasha_SG)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/8 "2003-11-19T05:10:41Z")
my monkey where on dundas are you located? i am around Islington + Dundas PM me if u want to go drifting sometime…
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### Author:  [@SHIFT\_KA24DET](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SHIFT_KA24DET)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/9 "2003-11-19T09:03:55Z")
DORI DORI DORI!!!
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### Author:  [@Original\_Nutta](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Original_Nutta)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/10 "2003-11-19T11:39:43Z")
> [@Sasha](#):
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> my monkey where on dundas are you located? i am around Islington + Dundas PM me if u want to go drifting sometime…
Dumbass, he lives in Dundas, Ontario.
Dundas = city.
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### Author:  [@ADAM](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ADAM)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/11 "2003-11-19T11:49:26Z")
mechanical gauges are better IMO…
and even with oil and fuel and water pressure…you can still get mechanical gauges…they use a remote sending unit…that uses antifreeze to transmit the mechanical “signal” (the pressure value) to the mechanical gauge inside the car…so you don’t have oil or gas into the cabin…
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### Author:  [@mymonkey666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mymonkey666)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/12 "2003-11-19T17:31:07Z")
You betcha…in Dundas. No worries, though, most people think of the street and not of a town…very common.
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### Author:  [@Racer\_XTREME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Racer_XTREME)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/13 "2003-11-19T17:53:05Z")
where abouts in dundas?
i bought my car off king street/coots paradise area.
i’m from hamilton btw.
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### Author:  [@mymonkey666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/mymonkey666)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/14 "2003-11-19T18:24:33Z")
little shop by the Pioneer station?
I’m downtown.
If ya wanna meet sometime lemme know.
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### Author:  [@Racer\_XTREME](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Racer_XTREME)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-gauges-on-sr-mech-or-elect/80286/15 "2003-11-19T20:51:36Z")
yeah thats the one!
It was pure coincedence that they had a 240, it was the dealers daughters (and shit took shit care of it).
I will be in hamilton on saturday (i’m at school in waterloo), PM me if you want to meet up.
`nik