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air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:48 PM
I was wanting to hook up a fuel ratio gauge up from sun pro and all the reading i get is one bar says lean and when i give gas it stays the same its on a 2.2 whats the deal

Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:50 PM
How do you have it hooked up?





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Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 4:55 PM
I tried hookin one up also and they just dont seem to work that good on our cars. I had a autometer one and it did the same thing! But when i got a wideband gage it worked fine! its kinda wierd.
Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:12 PM
i think they were installed incorrrectly

now if I can only remember what colour wire they're supposed to be hooked up too.... pretty sure its purple on an ecotec.



Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:49 PM
An air/fuel ratio gauge wont give you an accurate reading at all. You need a wideband 02 gauge if you want to know what your a/f ratio is. An a/f like your talking is just a light show basically. Just my 2 cents casue i used to have one. It was kind of annoying .



Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:17 PM
Oooooo the hate for the narrow band.....

Is a narrow band a valid tuning tool? Yes. Is a narrow band a valid _fine_ tuning tool? No.

If its giving a light show, all is good... if its always lean, always rich and its hooked up properly, you have some ideas on what todo...



Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 8:40 PM
does it hook up to Ur sensor going to Ur header because all i have is a blk i think and white
Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:25 PM
yes, try the other wire....



Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:19 PM
LED sweeping guages=ricer light up toy. waste of money unless you get the AEM or w/e that tellls you the actual numbers

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Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:11 AM
^^

Did you just miss the post owen made?

and watch how you throw around the word ricer if you please.

Owen's got it pretty much. although it is somewhat of a light show, it does give somewhat of an idea where your car is A/F wise.

the gauge will always go back and fourth due to the car evening itself out between rich stoich and lean, unless you have a problem, like the gauge stays on the lean or on the rich side without any reason.

Not the best tool for fine tuning but it's better than absolutely nothing.



Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:43 AM
It gives you an idea but you still don't know the real number witch is what you need to do any tuning.



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Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:03 PM
that's true. but if you're dead on serious about tuning, it'd be better to get something like a M/S or a SAFC or something.

Wideband?





Re: air fuel ratio gauge
Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:57 PM
Well, without a data logger, a wideband is useless anyways... people say "get a wideband" but thats still not all that useful, you need to be able to see what kind of conditions such as RPM and load resulted in the air fuel ratio.



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