Water Temp, Where To Mount Sensor?

[carfreak85]

I want to install the sender for my water temp gauge. Where do you recommend I place it? From where would the reading be most benificial on a turbocharged car? I'd like to avoid drilling and tapping any metal but if there aren't any readilly avalible soft mounts.

[mikeshoup]

My Turbo has the water temp sender mounted in place of the original sender for the dash, right on the t-stat housing. Makes sense to me.

[gl10]

I didn't want to make new holes either and my aftermarket sender had standard threads, so I broke the plastic off of the old sender and tapped the brass with a pipe tap. Worked great for my VDO sender. I had to saw a bit off the end of the old sender to get the new sender deep enough.