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Recommendations on gauge positioning for a competition car.
I realise that I might be about to be flamed for posting this in what seems like the wrong thread but hear me out:
I actively participate in autocross events and track days with a heavy emphasis on autocross...in fact I purchased my EVO specifically to use as a competitive but street-liveable autocross car. I'm planning on getting the usual Defi gauge setup - link control unit + boost, water temp, oil temp and oil pressure gauges - but ended up getting into a heated debate with another EVO owner about the ideal place to position the gauges in the context of competitive track use.
I was planning to mount them in the centre console area (with boost on the steering column) as opposed to going the sticky-tape-on-dash route in order to preserve the cleanest sightlines over the hood possible but at the expense of instant legibility. My counterpart in the discussion was quite insistent that dash-top mounting was better for track use, under the logic that looking all the way down to the console wasn't the ideal setup since it would be harder to monitor the car's vitals at a glance under race conditions.
I sat in his car with the dash-mounted gauges in it and sure enough, my view of the front right corner of the car was blocked however his theory about easy of legibility proved to have merit.
I'm interested to know what others think who compete in their cars on a regular basis.
And please note that I don't give a hoot about looks - this is all about functionality.
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