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Author Topic: What did you do to your Kappa today!  (Read 1192652 times)

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Offline IBDRINKEN

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2475 on: February 23, 2011, 06:11:38 AM »
shit lets see i have the following ones egt,boost,oil temp, fuel pressure, oil presssure. I have no where elses to mount, Im going to have to take out one of those. What do you think.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2476 on: February 23, 2011, 06:36:53 AM »
You monitor the low pressure fuel, right?
I would give up on Oil Temp, oil pressure is showing oil temp indirectly.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2477 on: February 23, 2011, 06:43:31 AM »
well its fuel pressure to be exact, good call on the oil temp
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2478 on: February 23, 2011, 06:48:17 AM »
Also I think you can convert oil temp into water temp as far as I know.

Fluid temp sensors are pretty much same and because you have digital gauges than you don't have a value range to limit you in a different range than you want.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2479 on: February 23, 2011, 06:54:16 AM »
so basically all I would have to do is just buy the new sender and hook it up the oil gauge. Let me ask this Im looking at the senders and not sure which one to get. Here is the link to them

http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=111/category_id=245/home_id=59/mode=prod/prd111.htm
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2480 on: February 23, 2011, 07:02:08 AM »
I think sender is same, only fittings might be different, why to buy a new sender if you already have one from your oil temp?
I think you should research about our stock water sender to find out fitting sizes.

Also another idea, why don't you tap your gauge on the stock water sensor?
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2481 on: February 23, 2011, 07:04:21 AM »
I think sender is same, only fittings might be different.
I think you should research about our stock water sender to find out fitting sizes.

Also another idea, why don't you tap your gauge on the stock water sensor?

Thats a great idea and makes more sense. I will do some searching and see what I can find. Thanks again for your help.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2482 on: February 23, 2011, 07:09:44 AM »
No problem mate, I love to help this community, you helped me with gauges in the past too, I was just trying to return the service.
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2483 on: February 23, 2011, 12:36:01 PM »
I'd be concerned that 2 instruments on one sender might interfere with each other.   The sender works by varying the resistance across 2 wires.  Any circuit that you add in parallel with the ECM will have some resistance, and the ECM has some resistance too.  So the ECM or the gauge will be reading the total resistance of the sender + the other instrument.  It may throw off your readings.

Why not eliminate fuel pressure instead?    :idk:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2484 on: February 23, 2011, 05:19:27 PM »
Its a tough call..
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2485 on: February 24, 2011, 10:56:16 AM »
Avoided a seat belt ticket. Whew!

Drove to work this morning and normally I put my seat belt on right after I back out. But everything was clear and then the couple of lights I go through were green. So as I was putting it on, I see a cop at the intersection. He follows me through the residential area that I cut through. I follow the speed limit and stop at the stop sign. I'm sure that he ran my plate. Thankfully, it's a secondary infraction here so he turned and went to the fire station and left me alone. :yay:

Saw another cop as I came down through another residential area. Luckily, I was still driving appropriately. Must be end of the month quota time. :D

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2486 on: February 24, 2011, 11:27:06 AM »
Smartin, don't let me down.
first we buckle up, then we turn the ignition on.
correct???
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2487 on: February 24, 2011, 11:29:05 AM »
Drove it in the snow with Michelins PS2, parking in our crowded small spots is far easier now  :rofl:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2488 on: February 24, 2011, 11:36:47 AM »
Smartin, don't let me down.
first we buckle up, then we turn the ignition on.
correct???
Not always. ;)

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2489 on: February 24, 2011, 11:45:18 AM »
Ordered some enhancements from Norm for the GXP!!! :yay:

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2490 on: February 24, 2011, 01:33:08 PM »
I washed it, waxed it and put a set of Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star Specs on it!  WOO HOO!!   :yay: :yay:
SCCA Solo National Tour comes to Houston on March 19-20.  Can't wait to see how the Star Specs do on the course!   :drive:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2491 on: February 24, 2011, 02:23:15 PM »
Smartin, don't let me down.
first we buckle up, then we turn the ignition on.
correct???

Nope, it's turn the ignition on, then buckle up while the car is warming up. :cheers:
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2492 on: February 24, 2011, 03:01:54 PM »
Nope, it's turn the ignition on, then buckle up while the car is warming up. :cheers:

:agree: Except I got out into traffic before it warmed up! ;)

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2493 on: February 24, 2011, 03:10:31 PM »
Mine is sitting all warm, dry and clean in the garage.
gonna wait until the snow melts, it rains to get rid of all the remaining salt and is dry again before he will come back out.

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2494 on: February 24, 2011, 07:03:26 PM »
Mine is sitting all warm, dry and clean in the garage.
gonna wait until the snow melts, it rains to get rid of all the remaining salt and is dry again before he will come back out.
Yeah mine too fortunately, or unfortunately...   :(
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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2495 on: February 25, 2011, 08:57:20 PM »
Spent the latter half of the day adjusting my windows to close the gaps at the weatherstripping. Hoping this will reduce the wind noise a little bit.

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2496 on: February 25, 2011, 10:11:16 PM »
I took mine for a Short ride after work . Then My key fob stop working and a dealer fixed that one a year ago.

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2497 on: February 25, 2011, 11:36:05 PM »
Ordered lots of fun in a DDM kit today!

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2498 on: February 26, 2011, 07:27:00 AM »
Taking her in for free service and oil change. At least one good thing came out of the dealerships closing... free stuff!

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Re: What did you do to your Kappa today!
« Reply #2499 on: February 26, 2011, 08:52:22 AM »
Taking her in for free service and oil change. At least one good thing came out of the dealerships closing... free stuff!
No wonder we have turbos failing, you trust that they put in the correct oil?

 

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