Brian_Zinchuk

Why does everyone refer to the Air/fuel as wideband? Or is that something different?

zkiller

Good luck with that! You can have dangerously lean condition and all those other gauges will be reading everything is fine. Me I'll use the best technology to make sure my car is running at its best and safely. (Oh and I am an old school drag racer from the seventies)

There are two types of Air/Fuel ratio gauges. Wideband and narrowband.
narrowband is inexpensive but useless for the most part.

one eyed willy

what he said, you can get the aem wideband with 02 sensor for around $230. you have to weld in a 02 bung or if you have deleted your cats you can use the rear passanger side 02 bung.wideband is probably the most usefull gauge,it will tell you if your too lean so you know something is wrong.thats why i have a seperate dedicated gauge for wideband,otherwise you could hook the wideband up to the scangauge also.

the $40-$50 narrowband gauges are just for flashy lights and give you zero usefull info.

Brian_Zinchuk

some of you guys say oil pressure and water temp, can't you just use the stock gauges to read that? Temp and oil press?

RF2.1

I have a AutoMeter wideband A/F and boost, and an Aeroforce gauge. The Aeroforce gauge is pretty nifty; lots of stuff to play with and I'm always changing parameters to monitor.

As far as why people suggest to get oil pressure and water temp gauges, that's because you have no way to really monitor those accurately with what comes stock. And both those gauges could be very handy. I have an oil pressure adaptor kit for my Aeroforce, and I'd like to get a proper water temp gauge one of these days.

David

mygt500

The stock gauges are idiot gauges and not as accurate as the "added" aftermarket gauges. Digital gauges are more accurate and give closer to an exact number for any given gauge than the stockers.

Brian_Zinchuk

so wheres the best place to get these good gauges? AEM?

RF2.1

Most of your decent web stores will carry AEM, AutoMeter, etc. Trying searching places like Lethal Performance, Summit, and such. I got mine from Lethal.

David

sevenleaf

Aeroforce Gauge Ordered mine from Lethalperformance.


Boost, Fuel Pressure and Wideband

Wanderlai

I'm looking at getting an SOS triple pillar andtheAutometer Ultra lite series 2 Boost and Fuel pressure gauges. What should my other gauge be? I assume air flow.