Am wondering what purpose an egt gauge would serve. Would help in wrong fuel mixtures, intake leaks, what else? I have always read they are only useful for turbos and i understand why but i can see usefullness for natural aspirated engines also. What yall think. Am i crazy. Maybe put it on at beginning of cat. Hey i like gauges and what is going on with my car.
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is egt gauge usefull for non turbo f22a6?
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Originally posted by iakona View Postif you're staying all motor, a high quality wideband AFR would be a better choice. not the autometer ones, but an innovate or the like.Last edited by zedjr10; 07-16-2021, 07:22 PM.
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i've honestly never heard of them until just now. but if they work for you, then keep running them.
fuel pressure is one that i would swap out for oil pressure though. only reason i say that is low fuel pressure really isn't a honda thing. it's either good or it's nothing. hahaha.
oil psi, afr, voltmeter are your three best friends all motor. oil temp, possibly fourth.
egt is more of a boosted thing where you need to watch for spikes in temperature but n/a runs in such a narrow window, it won't do you a whole lot of good. and yes, egt probes are right at the cylinder exits. there is an optimal number of inches from the port they need to be, i forget. and then it is usually one per bore so you can tell which one is running hot.
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I honestly wouldn’t waste my time with a fuel pressure or an EGT gauge. Fuel pressure on the fuel rail is all you really need and honestly once youset up the initial fuel pressure when you are tuning you don’t ever look at it again.
as for EGT I’ve read mix reviews and honestly I’m not worried about melting a piston, as if the temp is getting that hot I would see it in the oil temp and AFR.
i think the 2 most important gauges are AFR to see how your engine is burning/mixing and oil pressure to see how healthy it is.
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Originally posted by Grumpys93 View PostI honestly wouldn’t waste my time with a fuel pressure or an EGT gauge. Fuel pressure on the fuel rail is all you really need and honestly once youset up the initial fuel pressure when you are tuning you don’t ever look at it again.
as for EGT I’ve read mix reviews and honestly I’m not worried about melting a piston, as if the temp is getting that hot I would see it in the oil temp and AFR.
i think the 2 most important gauges are AFR to see how your engine is burning/mixing and oil pressure to see how healthy it is.
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there should be a port on the rail you can use to test your pressure at the rail, after the filter. you just need the correct fitting.
once you start running that many sources of information, i would look into a digital display of some kind. autometer has one, parts shop max has one. you can cycle through your sensors and display what you like. without have to permanently take up real estate on your dash.
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Originally posted by Grumpys93 View PostI honestly wouldn’t waste my time with a fuel pressure or an EGT gauge. Fuel pressure on the fuel rail is all you really need and honestly once youset up the initial fuel pressure when you are tuning you don’t ever look at it again.
as for EGT I’ve read mix reviews and honestly I’m not worried about melting a piston, as if the temp is getting that hot I would see it in the oil temp and AFR.
i think the 2 most important gauges are AFR to see how your engine is burning/mixing and oil pressure to see how healthy it is.
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Originally posted by iakona View Postthere should be a port on the rail you can use to test your pressure at the rail, after the filter. you just need the correct fitting.
once you start running that many sources of information, i would look into a digital display of some kind. autometer has one, parts shop max has one. you can cycle through your sensors and display what you like. without have to permanently take up real estate on your dash.
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