No, this isn't a Subaru, but I've been on and around I-club since my sophomore year of high school, so I felt like I should share this with the Bay Area people at the very least.

I recently bought a HKS electronic boost gauge off of ebay. The gauge is a discontinued model, and I bought it because it matched the interior light color of my FC. I spent a few hours over 2 days installing the thing.

First off was determining where to mount the gauge itself. I could not do an A pillar install, as I didn't have the gauge pod. I didn't want to do a triple gauge pod deal on the dash either, as it would cover my warning lights and be out of my field of view. In the end, I decided on the steering column cover, so it would be right in front of me.

The column cover presented some problems, since it's made of really ****ty 80s plastic. I took it off, and upon drilling holes, stress cracks started appearing. I decided the only way to mount the gauge without it breaking off on a speedbump was to create a sort of brace. I bought a bit of sheetmetal , screws, and washers, and finally mounted the gauge. It is ghetto to the extreme.

Bottom of steering cover:



Gauge on the top. I cut off the little part sticking out with tin snips. It's still ghetto, but oh well, I'm not that patient:



Next I needed to do the wiring for the illumination and power. But first, I needed to take out the instrument cluster to get to the harnesses:



We tapped into the harness to get all of the illumination and dimmer controls, and also to get power to the lights and the gauge. After a bit of stripping and tapping, we hooked up the gauge and it worked fine.

After that, I needed to find out where to get vacuum/boost readings, etc.

This is the sender included with the gauge. The "HKS" is like +3 to JDM level:



I ended up plugging it into a little nipple on the intake manifold, as you can see in this picture:



After that, I needed to run the wiring from the sender through the firewall. So I decided to route it around the AC lines, and down through the rubber grommet where the main engine harness is. I cut out a bit of the rubber and forced the wire through.



Now I could finally put the dash back together. After struggling a bit with the speedo cable, I finally got everything back into place and fired it up. I took it on the highway a few times, doing a couple of 2nd and 3rd gear pulls to make sure the gauge was working correctly. Everything was PERFECT. Boosted ALL the way to 0.4kg/cm2. That's like...7 psi! Anyway, here are a couple shots of the final product. I'm pretty happy with my work, despite the ghettoness:

 

i was going to tell u to straighten out the gauge... but then i saw the scope.... on the rifle... with the bi pod... so yeah, u can install ur gauge however u want man....

 

do u feel any power differents cheers&ENJOY!!

 

Nice match with the FC interior

Now share pics of the car!!!

BTW - lots of people offset the gauge so that they have a quick reference point when they glance at it. It's not always necessary to have the "0" at the 9 o'clock position just so it looks nice.

 

i know that, but it just doesn't look neat... kinda like a ding on a car... u can live with it, but its just ugly

 

Your wish is my command

 

yeah at my old shop we would clock all the gauges to point straight up, when your racing you want to just glance down and see all the needles at 12 o'clock, I had it like that in my old ITA CRX, I kinda wish I could do that in my STI too

 

do u have a gauge on ur keyboard aswell? LOL!

 

Nice pics! And I love th word bunchies just a fun word to say, kinda bounces off the lips,
"Bunchies"

 

Yep, thought it was your FC remembered seeing it when you first got it on here.
Very nice.

 

saw those pictures on s2k forums before, nice cars and nice picture, i remember that one picturre the guy did a jump kick over the car, thats great pics

 

Turbo IIs are teh hawtnuss

 

haha yeah, that guy's my best friend.