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stevenwrichards · 03-20-2016, 04:24 PM

Hi all,

Looking to add some affordable in car gauges to keep track of things during this season of HPDEs. At a minimum I'm looking for oil temp, oil pressure and coolant temp. Datalogging would be nice but not looking to spend hundreds / thousands on a full standalone cluster from AiM / Stack / Racepak / etc.

Two options seem to be:

1) An in car gauge / scan tool that plugs into the OBD2 port (e.g the ScangaugeII: http://www.scangauge.com/products/scangaugeii/)

2) Wifi / Bluetooth OBD2 scanner with smartphone app (e.g. GoPoint BT1a with DashCommand on iPhone: http://www.palmerperformance.com/pro...mand/index.php)

The Scangauge tool seems straightforward (if a little dated) while the DashCommand route includes a lot of great features but seems to be a bit more sizzle than steak ... Not sure how I feel about trusting Apple to tell me when I'm overheating

Anybody have any experience with either of these solutions / could recommend something better?

03-20-2016, 04:24 PM	#1
stevenwrichards Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Detroit, MI Posts: 70 iTrader: (0) Photo Gallery	Gauges / Datalogging for HPDE Hi all, Looking to add some affordable in car gauges to keep track of things during this season of HPDEs. At a minimum I'm looking for oil temp, oil pressure and coolant temp. Datalogging would be nice but not looking to spend hundreds / thousands on a full standalone cluster from AiM / Stack / Racepak / etc. Two options seem to be: 1) An in car gauge / scan tool that plugs into the OBD2 port (e.g the ScangaugeII: http://www.scangauge.com/products/scangaugeii/) 2) Wifi / Bluetooth OBD2 scanner with smartphone app (e.g. GoPoint BT1a with DashCommand on iPhone: http://www.palmerperformance.com/pro...mand/index.php) The Scangauge tool seems straightforward (if a little dated) while the DashCommand route includes a lot of great features but seems to be a bit more sizzle than steak ... Not sure how I feel about trusting Apple to tell me when I'm overheating Anybody have any experience with either of these solutions / could recommend something better?