<VV> Reasons for a buzzer.

[Jim Houston]

When I was racing a Mini in England (1974) I used a round Lucas 
taillight for oil pressure warning ....

Jim Houston
'65 Monza coupe

Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 9/29/2008 12:23:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> airvair at earthlink.net writes:
>
> An  interesting trivia item to everyone on this subject, though not
> applicable  to Dave's car. As far as I know, non-turbo Corsa's didn't have a
> buzzer  installed, though the wires were  there.
>
> -Mark
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> I agree, Mark - Of all of the 140 Corsas I have owned, none came with a  
> buzzer. I installed it on a few of them. Here is an additional reason for the  
> buzzer - and for maintaining your "Idiot" lights.  A friend bought a nice,  new 
> 1974 BMW 2002 (back in 1974). He ordered it with an optional VDO gage  package. 
> Three beautiful gages in the middle of the dash. The gage pack replaced  the 
> idiot lights, at least for the oil pressure. His wife was driving it once  and 
> an oil cooler line came off. She was not watching the gage, no warning  
> light, and cooked the inside of the motor. That is in street  driving where you 
> should have plenty of time to watch the gages. Most racing  Corvairs I see, 
> these-days, have a huge light (A trailer taillight works well)  mounted in/on the 
> dash, hooked up to either the oil pressure sender (high  minimums suggested) 
> the cooling fan indicator (which can be pressure or  idler-position fed) or head 
> temp switches. Or to all three of them!  -  Seth
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