Gauge install problem...

[Col-GTSX]

Every skyline i have owned has a hole next to the brake booster where you can stick wires and lines threw the firewall and meet up with a gauge on the pillar...

However after 3 hours of swearing and scratching a mag and breaking 2 clips... I still cant find a way to get my boost line threw the firewall...

The BLITZ SBC-i-D III will go threw where the main loom comes out under the A/C piping no problem at all. However i dont want to have to get 4 metres of hose for a boost gadge....

What have other series 2 owners does to plumb theirs???

[Col-GTSX]

I would also like to note, dont drive with your dash sitting in the back seat. Cause you need the hazard light button in place to indercate left or right. I got honked 4 times yesterday afternoon on the way home from a mates place, im like im sorry, i was using my hands for right hand turns. But people just dont care, and its the ones honking who usually dont indercate.

[Skyrine-Dave]

lol @ dash...

umm whats stopping you from drilling a hole yourself and using a rubber grommet?

[Col-GTSX]

Wanted to get away from drilling a hole.... Bit hard to drill next to brake booster any way....

Even harder drilling from inside....

Might have to run 4 metres of hose.... Looked at pressure loss over 1 metre of hose and it like 0.004psi so 4 metres will not make a huge problem... So i guess ill just have to do it this way...

Any further ideas would be nice....

[blur:R]

After 3 hours of pokin' around under the dash, i ended up pulling the grommet connected to the bonnet release line. I found it after following the bonnet release line into the firewall, and pulling away a tiny bit of the insulation there was a grommet approx 2cm wide.

Then it was all a matter of threading through the hose (which was pain to get through to the engine bay)....

[Col-GTSX]

I looked for the bonnet release... Mine in the inner guard... I even had the front left wheel off to find it.... Hang on i didnt check behind the fire matt stuff... Ill have a look see

[blur:R]

if you follow the bonnet release from the latch inside it will head almost straight into the fire wall.. there's some insulation there and behind the insulation is the grommet which you can pull out. Now it doesn't got straight into the engine bay, but heads up abit....u'll ne some LOOOONG cable ties or something similar to push it up and into the bay.

Lemme know if u want a pic... it's too dark @ the mo & i don't have a flash... hehe

[BHDave]

There should be a grommet with a bunch of wires running through that you can see if you remove the plastic inner guard. They run under the drivers side guard to the fuse box i think from the dash.

Push the end of a bit of coat hanger though it, tape your boost line to it, and you should be right.

[Col-GTSX]

I found the bonnet release cable... But this is a Blitz AC Race series gadge which uses 3/8 vac piping not that little 2 mm plasic tube.... Gonna have to drill a hole...

The main harness on a 33 goes through the firewall under the AC piping... wrong side of the engine bay... If i was to do this id have to run 4.5 metres of vac tube.... Not Cool

[HKS-R33]

When i installed my boost gauge on my series 2, i used a hole on the drivers side which lead down under neath the dash near the accelerator. I wouldnt be going through all the trouble of pulling wheels off or drilling holes in ur firewall.

If u are still stuck i may be able to get u some pics tonight

[Col-GTSX]

Pitures would be very helpful...

Its hard to tell what people are talking about....

[Bobby^]

ive got the same car and am having the same problem, i cant find a decent place for the life of me. A picture from the engine bay & one from inside would be great