Aftermarket gauges?

Who has aftermarket gauges installed in their Mazda?

Oil Pressure
Water Temp

Anything? Have pictures?

HERE ARE MY NEW GAUGES INSTALLED!!!
I need to clean the vents up, this dash consel was in a junk yard 8 hours ago! I F'ed up my original consel so I had to go to a junk yard and pull this one out of a beater truck.

Enjoy!







One pic with the Tach I installed last year...

ive got:
oil pressure, and voltage, and the console where the radio used to be is all my air pressure gauges

i've got aftermarket gauges by dakota digital.

No heat?

I have an Autometer water temp gauge screwed to the side of my cluster. Never figured how to make a chevy sender work with the Mazda gauge. Shouldn't have been hard...but it was

nope no heat,although i am in canada i dont need heat all the time

Where did you tap in for water temp?

I soldered a lead off of the back of the cluster.

So you used the factory sensor? I tried tapping into that wire and my gauge was freaking out.



(EDIT: I Updated the first post with pics of my newly installed gauges)

You know, now that you mention it, I may have cut the wire going into the cluster. That would make more sense.

My problem WAS the factory sensor. Mazda uses this crazy M5.5 threaded sensor made out of what appears to be used bubble gum. You can over torque the damn thing with your fingers. And that torque is way less than the torque required to get the thing to seal.

IIRC, I have a GM Sender running through the factory wiring - then to an Autometer gauge. I hate the way the autometer looks, hanging off my cluster, but I won't live without a gauge that actually has numbers on it.

Anyway, I largely digress. You can't leave both the aftermarket and factory gauge hooked up. Their impedences will add, and your readings will be off. Beyond that, I think the Mazda sender has the wrong scaling anyhow.

I got the same steering wheel!