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Instead of cluttering my interior with enough aftermarket gauges to look like a cross between a B-52 cockpit and a reject from the set of the latest Fast and Furious movie, I turned to Aeroforce. Aeroforce makes a series of “scan gauges” that monitor OBD-II parameters on all vehicles manufactured in the US after 1996. For newer vehicles utilizing Car Area Networks (CAN) Busses, like the 2011+ Mustang, even more parameters can be read.
Doesn’t look like much at first, does it? It’s simply a single 52-mm gauge and an OBD-II connector.The Aeroforce Interceptor is a single (or dual) 52-mm gauge that installs easily into any gauge pod. It displays two CAN-BUS parameters at a time and can be set up to cycle through them. It can also read and clear OBD-II trouble codes and be set up as warning and/or shift light. The coolest part, though, is that it simply requires one plug to be installed into the OBD-II port—there is no splicing or installing sensors. For monitoring parameters not used by the PCM, the Aeroforce Interceptor also allows two analog temperature or pressure sensors to be installed and input into the device.
To make a clean installation of the Aeroforce Interceptor, I picked up a Roush vent pod. This pod allows the installation of a single 52-mm gauge into the driver’s side HVAC vent. It is a very simple procedure; I had the gauge fully installed in less than half an hour.
Installation is simple. Do it when your significant other isn’t home so you can use the living room floor. First, you remove the stock gauge bezel by simply pulling it out.
Then the vent itself simply pulls out.
Now you pull the guts of the vent out (on the right there) and replace it with the Roush vent pod (at the bottom).
The assembled vent pod simply snaps back in.
Now the bezel is reinstalled around the gauge cluster and the Aeroforce Interceptor's cable pulled through.
