On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Brian White wrote:

> I converted my oil pressure gauge in my Miata from PSI to kg/cm2.
> ...

Brian,

Please note that the SI unit of pressure is newton/meter2, force/area
(N/m2, or pascal); kg/cm2 is mass/area which is *not* a pressure.

PSI is pounds (force)/inch2, not pounds (mass)/inch2.

Did you use a *converter* which fails to distinguish between mass and
force?

Gene.

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