ravencr

I talked with Roger at Westach Guages, and man, these things are expensive it seems. But I haven't looked at anyone else, and I was under the impression that these were cheaper than most but good quality. Have I read correctly? Here's what he quote me:

1) Fuel Pressure/Cylinder Head Temp Combo $71.60
2) Exhaust Gast Temp/Tranny Temp Combo $71.60
3) EGT Probe $33.10
4) Dipstick Tranny Temp Sensor $20.00
5) Fuel Pressure Sender $40.80
6) CHT Spark Plug Mount/Sender $14.50
7) Guage Lights $4.00/each
8) Plastic Dual Guage Pod $12.00

The total would be $271.60. What do you all think?

Chris

ravencr

Bump, nobody running any guages out there that are Westach or have any idea if this is too pricy or a good deal??

Chris

ravencr

I know there is a lot of people with guages on the forum. Can someone please shed some light on this?

Chris

ravencr

I guess no one has installed any additional guages on their 4Runners. Oh well! Not!

Chris

ufjaz

Watch out. They tried to charge me $50 extra per gauge for dial face drawing for combo gauges. I cancelled that order.

ravencr

I'm not totally clear on what you mean other than they tried to rip you off, right? What gauges are you running then?

Chris

ufjaz

ravencr,

No, I wouldn't say they tried to rip me off ... exactly.

I had talked to them over the phone and had discussed orderingan additional 4 dual gauges. After about a month, I called them to check on my order. Well, they apparently forgot about it. So I reiterated what I wanted and asked for an order confirmation sent to me.

After about two iterations of errors, I called about a $150 charge for dial tooling. They replied that they had to draw 3 of the dual gauges dials @ $50 apeice. I guess I missed any statement in their catalogue that said there were dial tooling charges in addition to the advertised price.

Well they wouldn't back down so I cancelled those 3 gauges. I currently have an EGT dual gauge, a vacuum/boost gauge and a fuel pressure gauge all from Westach.

They were nice enough, the gauges are adequate, and I wouldn't say they tried to rip me off, but had I not insisted on an order confirmation they would have billed me for an extra $150 that I don't think is right.

ravencr

So do you think they are shooting me straight with my above offer for the two dual guages?

Chris

P.S. Anything you would change about the pickups or anything. I need those 4 guage types, so that's not an option, but the pickups have different styles from what I understand. Any ideas?

ufjaz

ravencr,

Your prices seem to be what the catalogue lists (from memory). But I'm tellin' ya - watch out they don't try to slip the dial tooling charge on ya for the combo gauges.

ravencr

That's fine! I'll make sure I check to make sure. Is there any other guages in this price range or are these the only ones that you're aware of?

Chris

ufjaz

You could check these sites for what they have to offer:

http://www.autometer.com/
http://www.gaugeman.com/
http://www.intellitronix.com/

mt_goat

What did you end up getting Chris? I'm wanting to get some gauges myself and the dual Westach seem like a good way to go.

ravencr

I never bought any, because I got rid of my S/C and the rest of my motor mods.

Chris