Turbo Gauges Question
12-22-2007, 06:21 PM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
ORIGINAL: ProCrsh
wow you guys know everything thank you very much. my biggest concern is exactly what androdz said about your jus at a light and something happens i wanna know cause teh turbo was expensive enough so i cant lay out for a motor build yet. thank you again guys, very much. i gotta figure out mounting solution next.
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wow you guys know everything thank you very much. my biggest concern is exactly what androdz said about your jus at a light and something happens i wanna know cause teh turbo was expensive enough so i cant lay out for a motor build yet. thank you again guys, very much. i gotta figure out mounting solution next.
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12-22-2007, 10:05 PM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
Erm most the info on that page is wrong. EGT is not a way to tune the car. You will blow ur engine if u follow those presets about temperature. They are trying to sell you a egt gauge. A EGT gauge is very important specially on turbo cars to see the exhaust temperatures but not to tune the engine. Anything over 12.3-12.5 on a turbo engine and you will prob blow the engine up. There is a reason why almost every tuner in the world tunes by wideband and not egt. N/A I am running 13.5 afr which right at the threshold for our engines. Remember gas engines are a lot like r/c engines they run the hardest when they are about to run out of fuel. The only prob is that on a car engine your temperatures will go up and you might up with some pieces of aluminum in ur muffler if you go to lean lol.
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12-22-2007, 10:57 PM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
You no i am in the same boat as procrsh i guess its true that youshould bleve nothing that you hear and half of what you read Thisis how i was going to tune my car put a egt gauge on it strap it on a dyno tune it to make max hp every thang happy see whear the temp is and not go past that on the street.Is this a good way to do it.
12-23-2007, 03:17 PM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
the wideband can help you see if your borderline, or running close to the edge. Some of them have warning systems which may or may not be helpful, however 99% of the time when there is a serious problem the gauge will not be able to warn you fast enough. The gauges are great to have, and may help you but I just thought it was pertinent to mention that the gauges will not save your car, you have to be able to react fast enough/ be lucky enough to shut down in time to prevent serious damage. That said I would get a fuel pressure, A/F, and oil or boost, o
12-23-2007, 06:05 PM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
ORIGINAL: androdz
Erm most the info on that page is wrong. EGT is not a way to tune the car. You will blow ur engine if u follow those presets about temperature. They are trying to sell you a egt gauge. A EGT gauge is very important specially on turbo cars to see the exhaust temperatures but not to tune the engine. Anything over 12.3-12.5 on a turbo engine and you will prob blow the engine up. There is a reason why almost every tuner in the world tunes by wideband and not egt. N/A I am running 13.5 afr which right at the threshold for our engines. Remember gas engines are a lot like r/c engines they run the hardest when they are about to run out of fuel. The only prob is that on a car engine your temperatures will go up and you might up with some pieces of aluminum in ur muffler if you go to lean lol.
Andrew
Erm most the info on that page is wrong. EGT is not a way to tune the car. You will blow ur engine if u follow those presets about temperature. They are trying to sell you a egt gauge. A EGT gauge is very important specially on turbo cars to see the exhaust temperatures but not to tune the engine. Anything over 12.3-12.5 on a turbo engine and you will prob blow the engine up. There is a reason why almost every tuner in the world tunes by wideband and not egt. N/A I am running 13.5 afr which right at the threshold for our engines. Remember gas engines are a lot like r/c engines they run the hardest when they are about to run out of fuel. The only prob is that on a car engine your temperatures will go up and you might up with some pieces of aluminum in ur muffler if you go to lean lol.
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12-24-2007, 04:42 AM
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RE: Turbo Gauges Question
ORIGINAL: moocow_v
ok androdz im calling you out first u try to bash saying that i know nothing cuz i said the a/f wasnt as important as egt, now your saying dont tune with egt, well egt is one way of tuning for the most consistant, working with NHRA teams and NASCAR, i will let you know that they are tuning cars with EGT. EGT is one way of controlling A/F at the same time, they can individually tune each cylinder for a perfect EGT, if the EGT is too hot they add more fuel, too cold they take away fuel, a lean cylinder always runs hot. with the A/f gauge they can only measure each bank individually, yes an EGT setup like this is quite expensive but yet the most accurate way to tune the cars. in a street setup u use both EGT and A/F and using one or the other will get u to a similar place because your are likely to be measuring egts off each bank not individual cylinder, same with A/F
ORIGINAL: androdz
Erm most the info on that page is wrong. EGT is not a way to tune the car. You will blow ur engine if u follow those presets about temperature. They are trying to sell you a egt gauge. A EGT gauge is very important specially on turbo cars to see the exhaust temperatures but not to tune the engine. Anything over 12.3-12.5 on a turbo engine and you will prob blow the engine up. There is a reason why almost every tuner in the world tunes by wideband and not egt. N/A I am running 13.5 afr which right at the threshold for our engines. Remember gas engines are a lot like r/c engines they run the hardest when they are about to run out of fuel. The only prob is that on a car engine your temperatures will go up and you might up with some pieces of aluminum in ur muffler if you go to lean lol.
Andrew
Erm most the info on that page is wrong. EGT is not a way to tune the car. You will blow ur engine if u follow those presets about temperature. They are trying to sell you a egt gauge. A EGT gauge is very important specially on turbo cars to see the exhaust temperatures but not to tune the engine. Anything over 12.3-12.5 on a turbo engine and you will prob blow the engine up. There is a reason why almost every tuner in the world tunes by wideband and not egt. N/A I am running 13.5 afr which right at the threshold for our engines. Remember gas engines are a lot like r/c engines they run the hardest when they are about to run out of fuel. The only prob is that on a car engine your temperatures will go up and you might up with some pieces of aluminum in ur muffler if you go to lean lol.
Andrew
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