Wideband Air / Fuel guage
21 December 2009, 04:43 PM
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Wideband Air / Fuel guage
hey people
i am just woundering what are the benifits of having Wideband Air / Fuel guage?
i want to fit a few guages that will benifit the car and not just for show could anyone do me a favour and write a small list top most important to bottom not as important, also what they do
thanks
i am just woundering what are the benifits of having Wideband Air / Fuel guage?
i want to fit a few guages that will benifit the car and not just for show could anyone do me a favour and write a small list top most important to bottom not as important, also what they do
thanks
21 December 2009, 04:57 PM
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Wideband AFR will tell you what your air:fuel ratio is, accurately. It's almost essential if you are tuning, often very handy if you're fault finding, and also rather good as a passive indicator of the health of both your stock narrowband sensor and the mass air flow sensor, assuming you're on a Subaru or Apexi ECU.
However, a wideband kit is a lot of money for the utility it gives "the average user" (no slight intended). It's more an advanced tuning tool than something most end users would gain a lot of value from.
IMO you'd get more value from a knock monitoring device as that will give you advance warning of most of the failure modes likely to cause your engine severe grief. Boost gauge can be handy when it comes to detecting overboost, but doesn't tell you an awful lot the rest of the time.
First thing to say about any gauges is that IMHO they are all not a lot of use unless they have a memory or proper datalogging function. Otherwise you need about five pairs of eyes to look out the windscreen and at your dials while driving - and even then you're more likely to miss something important than see it.
However, a wideband kit is a lot of money for the utility it gives "the average user" (no slight intended). It's more an advanced tuning tool than something most end users would gain a lot of value from.
IMO you'd get more value from a knock monitoring device as that will give you advance warning of most of the failure modes likely to cause your engine severe grief. Boost gauge can be handy when it comes to detecting overboost, but doesn't tell you an awful lot the rest of the time.
First thing to say about any gauges is that IMHO they are all not a lot of use unless they have a memory or proper datalogging function. Otherwise you need about five pairs of eyes to look out the windscreen and at your dials while driving - and even then you're more likely to miss something important than see it.
21 December 2009, 05:08 PM
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Wideband AFR will tell you what your air:fuel ratio is, accurately. It's almost essential if you are tuning, often very handy if you're fault finding, and also rather good as a passive indicator of the health of both your stock narrowband sensor and the mass air flow sensor, assuming you're on a Subaru or Apexi ECU.
However, a wideband kit is a lot of money for the utility it gives "the average user" (no slight intended). It's more an advanced tuning tool than something most end users would gain a lot of value from.
IMO you'd get more value from a knock monitoring device as that will give you advance warning of most of the failure modes likely to cause your engine severe grief. Boost gauge can be handy when it comes to detecting overboost, but doesn't tell you an awful lot the rest of the time.
First thing to say about any gauges is that IMHO they are all not a lot of use unless they have a memory or proper datalogging function. Otherwise you need about five pairs of eyes to look out the windscreen and at your dials while driving - and even then you're more likely to miss something important than see it.
However, a wideband kit is a lot of money for the utility it gives "the average user" (no slight intended). It's more an advanced tuning tool than something most end users would gain a lot of value from.
IMO you'd get more value from a knock monitoring device as that will give you advance warning of most of the failure modes likely to cause your engine severe grief. Boost gauge can be handy when it comes to detecting overboost, but doesn't tell you an awful lot the rest of the time.
First thing to say about any gauges is that IMHO they are all not a lot of use unless they have a memory or proper datalogging function. Otherwise you need about five pairs of eyes to look out the windscreen and at your dials while driving - and even then you're more likely to miss something important than see it.
sorry about the question too but what does imo and imho mean
thanks once again
21 December 2009, 05:18 PM
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i do have a boost gauge already, and where could i find datalogging ones from as i cant even see what it boosts at as i concentrate to much lol
Defi do recording ones although they're still not a full datalogging solution.
sorry about the question too but what does imo and imho mean
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