Quote Originally Posted by the evil twin View Post
Yes you can shorten or lengthen (within reason) most VDO EGT setups but you have to use the correct extension wire and connectors or you balls up the cold junction compensation. The gear is available from any good industrial instrumentation supplier BUT it is usually much easier to neatly stow the excess as you have done.

There are a couple of manuf around that do rely on the "supplied" thermocouple so again, if you aren't an instrument or process control techy or familiar with the various thermocouples best to try and stick with what is out of the box.


Another handy thing to remember is that most thermocouples for automotive apps will be wired red and white and the red is usually -ve in thermocouples.
Yeah it had the destructions that told me what color goes to what terminal (yellow and red on the thermo and red and brown on the cable) just had no reference to trimming the cable that attaches to the thermocouple, it works that is the main thing and the VDO gauges are much nicer to look at than the cheap ass SAAS boost gauge I had before!