i searched for a bit and couldnt find any good DIYs for wiring gauges. If someone can point me in the right direction or link me to a DIY it would be much appreciated.
A local shop quoted me $175 just for wiring the gauges. I have installed two turbo kits by myself so i should be able to do this as well, right now im just running a boost gauge with no power to it

 

Just tap the power from the cigarette lighter. It'll turn on with the car and turn off with the car. Done deal!

 

^^true true...ther are lots of wires that will do exactly that, just takes a meter to find em. On my houston style thread i had pretty much a diy on aem guage install but its lost someplace in the 100 pages of that thread....lol

 

what about the little cubby hole light?
my cigarette lighter doesnt even have power to it for some reason

ill try to look through your thread crush

 

or use a fuse tap thing. that's what i did for mine. tapped into the gauge power fuse.

 

You need to find all of your DIYs and make a Crushtuned DIY thread

 

lol...maybe. instead of finding them it would be easier to just rewrite em

 

Use a test light and find a wire to tap into at the fuse box under the cabin driver's side. A source that cuts on/off along with the key. i did this with my boost and UEGO gauges. Very easy, only power and ground.

 

where are those fuses at under the drivers side? and i heard some people of using some under the glovebox too??

 

there's a panel you remove on the left lower side from the steering wheel if i remember correctly

 

yep. stick your head under there and you'll see a white panel.

 

alrighty i will do that, i thought thats what i was but first time i glanced at it didnt really look like it to me.

 

i need someone to show me then i will know it forever but i will try to tap off the fuse box.
i also need to figure out how to hide the vac line going to my boost gauge....it looks so ghetto

 

I put both my boost and wideband gauges in the cubby and used a doc iso blank panel to fill the void. Everything (wires and vac line) come in from a hole I made in the back upper part of the cubby in front of the bulb. Looks stealth and almost OEM with the matching gauge setup I installed also

 

I would like to see a gauge pic thread

 

i agree! x2!

 

wow, my hat off to you (if i wore one) i never thought of that. i have something to wire this weekend, thanks.

 

Anyone else use the cigarette lighter for powering devices and find out that the labeled 12V on the connector is actually ground?? Maybe they jacked mine up from the factory with the wire colors or something...

 

When ever I have installed gauges I used a fuse tap on the cigarette lighter. I would not bother tapping the wire. It is much easier this way