Boost Gauge: Mechanical or Electric w/ Peak/Recall???

I need to get started on adding a few gauges so when I start to do power mods I can monitor the motor a little closer. I have read all the threads about the importance and necessity of various gauges and everyones opinions about them, but my mind is made up that before I AP or tune, I will have, at a minimum, Boost, Water Temp, Oil Pressure and Wideband AFR installed, and maybe an EGT and Oil Temp. So please, keep this discussion on topic, my question is below.

I have decided to go with Stack Gauges. Yes, I know they are pricey, but I plan to have the car for 2-3-400k miles and once they are installed, I don't want to mess with any failures or troubleshooting, ever. The WT and OP will be the Stepper Motor Gauges and I will likely do the Pro-Control (Peak/Warning/Recall) over the basic electric Stepper Motor gauges as the cost difference is only about 20-30 bucks per gauge.

My question is: Is there any real useful reason to have Peak/Warning/Recall on a boost gauge, or would a simple Mechanical Gauge do everything necessary? The price difference is about 130 hard earned bills.

What ye all think about it?

It's a neat feature to have but don't think I'd pay that much for it. You should be able to see the peak just by watching it while accelerating.

^^That's what I was thinking. And it's not like it matters a lot if it peaks at say, 15 or 15.2, right? The only thing I could think that would be handy with the pro-control model is the data logger leads. Those might be helpful for a tuner.

Stack should be quality, mechanical boost would be fine.

If you get tuned, you'll more than likely have an AP which can already do datalogging for you. AFR/WBO2 is probably overkill unless you're going further than stage 2 or doing some of your own tuning.

Any other thoughts before I let this thread die......?

Go start your build thread!!!!!! Yeah!!!!! Do it!!!!!

^I keep meaning to start that...Doh!

STACK is badass good choice.

I find it hard to concentrate how much boost im at when in it. Im more focused on the road so I dont kill myself. Then I can look back at it and see how much boost I just hit. So im for the boost recall

That was definitely something I was thinking about. Would prefer to concentrate on the road vs. exactly how much boost I am hitting. The really neat thing about the Stack Pro-Control gauge is that you can program it for the full gauge face to change color, say white to red, at a pre-set reading and then program an 'over-high' point where the gauge will start flashing in red. So basically you can get all the warnings in your peripheral vision without taking your eyes off the road.

get electric. after i had both, i will never go back to mechanical.