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Re: Last one/which one? Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:30:48
In Reply to: Re: Last one/which one?, 1991SPG, Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:50:27 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Personally, I don't think ~250hp is very ambitious, and people have been happily making power at or around those levels in c900s for years, using nothing but boltons and prayer. There are a half dozen "formulas" floating around on TSN right now for getting into that power range, and truth be told I bet you could just follow one of them and call it a day. You'd likely end up with a perfectly reliable motor and a long-lived car without ever looking at any aftermarket gauges. Consider that consumer-affordable EGT and wideband O2 didn't even exist before the turn of the millennium (if not later), and people have been tuning c900s for over 20 years...
My point is mostly that if you're going to invest in some gauges and want them to be useful and not just eye candy, there are certain ones that are more useful than others. Will you actually use them? Will they provide you a benefit? That I cannot answer...
But, as for pricing, wideband O2 is still reasonably new, and definitely not cheap. You can certainly source an EGT for much less - I'd suspect $100. You will need a place to locate the sensor, and the best place for that is the exhaust manifold. The closer it is to the source of the exhaust, the more accurate (and useful) it will be. That will, unfortunately, likely require removing the exhaust manifold from the car. if you're doing the exhaust already, now is an excellent time to yank that manifold!
And, if you're going down this road, I'd strongly consider looking at something like:
http://www.zeitronix.com/Products/zt2/zt2.htm
It's very inexpensive for what it is, and while it's not as nifty looking at a bunch of gauges on your dash, and arguably not as easy to read on the fly as an analog gauge, I think it does it's job famously and is an excellent money saver.
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, Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:39:24
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