Custom oil pressure gauge fitting

[BMWX1-35i]

I wanted to install a Oil presure gauge that could be easily removed and be put back to OEM. So, I came up with this. 20mm x 1.5 oil drain plug to replace one plug on top of the oil filter housing. I drilled and tapped the oil drain plug to accept a 3/8 NPT fitting and that goes to a braided line to the oil pressure sensors for the new gauge (which I'm still in the process of making a custom two pod mount to replace the ash tray.

What do you think of my custom oil tap?

[awns729]

Cool. What gauges are you going with? Pics?

[BMWX1-35i]

No pics yet. I normally get AutoMeter however, my last car I went overboard and had $750 just in AutoMeter Gauges. So, I went on the cheap this time., the gauges I got are nice. Totally dark when off and very inexpensive. They were only $27 shipped each (got Water temp and oil pressure) but you could find them cheeper. I got them from Amazon because I know the return policy is great if I did not like them. I know I'll get jumped on for this but, they do seem to work well. If they fail I can always get Autometer again.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[I35it]

interested to see how this comes out.

[BMWX1-35i]

I decided to go with a dash mounted gauge pod. This should be here tomorrow.

[BMWX1-35i]

Here it is all done. I was going to do the ashtray mode but decided to go with the dash pod. I am going to still make the ash try pod just because. I have the gauge bezel part of it done, the ashtray part of it I'll work on next week.

Dash







Ash tray bezel

[BMWX1-35i]

Here's the gauge pod for the ashtray. I'm not going to use it but, I had the parts so I put something together. I only used the bottom part of the ash try and the very top of the ashtray cover for the pod mounting. For whatever its worth, it was one idea I had prior to mounting a dash pod.





This is the approximate position it will set if I installed it (this is just the modified pod).