I ordered an air/fuel gauge that hooks into the purple (from what I remember) wire coming from the O2 sensor. If I install a wide-band O2, will I be able to use my gauge with it?
Would that even be any different than running an OEM O2 sensor with the gauge I have?
From what I've been told, the wideband O2's readings are like "*******************************" instead of the stock "*******" (in accuracy/incremental terms). It seems that if the wideband O2 can read more accurate, then my air/fuel gauge would be more accurate, also. Even though the air/fuel gauge only has 15 or so LED's in it from lean to rich.
If its one of those cheap AF gauges that don't actually show the AF reading, then I would say no. I would look into a wideband kit like this one
LM-1 kit
That would be your best bet.
IIRC Karo sells widebands that have a narrowband output. So you can just plug in the wideband sensor and get the wideband reading as well as the narrowband output.
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the only gauge that will work properly with a wideband is an actual wideband gauge. the plain afr gauges have a very very narrow voltage band that they can read.
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