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your opinion on air/fuel ratio guage.

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Old 08-29-2007, 12:56 PM
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Default your opinion on air/fuel ratio guage.

are these a bad idea to install?
i have a chance to get a cobalt guage for 15$.
will it work on my 95's o2 sensor?
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Old 08-29-2007, 12:58 PM
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Absolutely 100% useless. It will not tell you your A/F ratio and it will not let you know if you're rich / lean at WOT.
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Old 08-29-2007, 01:31 PM
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Sams right. A wideband gauge is what you need if you plan to know for sure what you have, or plan to tune by it. A narrow band is just for the pretty light show.
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:07 PM
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why do they even make narrowband a/f gauges haha
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:14 PM
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why do they even make narrowband a/f gauges haha
For the same reason they make neon lights, fart can exhaust, large spoilers, fake nitrous purge kits, the turbonator, electric superchargers, etc.
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:22 PM
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haha just for show... and another way to make money
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ok scratch that idea.
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Old 08-29-2007, 07:06 PM
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wideband or nothing
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Old 08-29-2007, 08:52 PM
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aem wideband guage and sensor, you can see your a/f ratio w/ the guage and hook the tweecer up and see it in there also with ur datalog.

btw sam do you kno how to make the adjustments so that tweecer sees the same a/f ratio as ur wideband, i kno through wire resistance the #'s change. i have the aem guage and it has a bosch sensor.
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I'm dealing with the same problem. You have to get a wideband transfer curve for that AEM.
Then load that curve to Cal Con. Good luck trying to find the transfer curve. If you find one
let me know. But open Cal Con , click the setup tab, under the EVP signal transfer click AEM or
PLX thats what I use. then in the second window click AFR.
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