How many tune off
04-15-2012, 02:35 AM
#2
Wideband is important for tuning but the main thing with plug reading is the ablity to read each cylinder as o2's even with one for each bank is just showing you an average by reading the exhaust. Plugs will show you if you have one cylinder that is getting less fuel than the other or to much so on and so fourth. I'm a total newbie to the nitrous field but I'm going to get a safe dyno tune using a wideband then go to the strip and tune using plugs from their as I add larger jets. That's the only way to learn.
04-24-2012, 08:44 PM
#5
Here's how I use my wideband or how I have learned to utilize it by listening to the fast guys.
A wideband is only as good as the person reading it. If you can look at that number and it just means a number to you that you have heard is safe then that wideband is doing no good.
As we have been discussing in this section lately, reading your plugs tells you what is going on exactly in each cylinder of the motor.
When you get to the point in your tune-ups where you are confident and very comfortable that everything is constant and nothing is varying in between runs on said tune-up then you can make a mental or physical note (on paper) that says when my plugs look clean and there is little to no fuel ring at WOT the AFR is this, and I know that AFR to be a safe, good AFR for my motor to run on when using this tune-up.
Then being able to read what the AFR is at certain parts on the track versus the time slip and where you were on the track is the main benefit to having a wideband IMO and 2nd being able to make that mental or physical link between a clean plug reading and a known AFR that makes the plug look clean like we want it.
This IMO is the benefit to a wideband and how they should be used not only in a Nitrous motor, but in ANY motor turbo, s/c or N/A.
A wideband is only as good as the person reading it. If you can look at that number and it just means a number to you that you have heard is safe then that wideband is doing no good.
As we have been discussing in this section lately, reading your plugs tells you what is going on exactly in each cylinder of the motor.
When you get to the point in your tune-ups where you are confident and very comfortable that everything is constant and nothing is varying in between runs on said tune-up then you can make a mental or physical note (on paper) that says when my plugs look clean and there is little to no fuel ring at WOT the AFR is this, and I know that AFR to be a safe, good AFR for my motor to run on when using this tune-up.
Then being able to read what the AFR is at certain parts on the track versus the time slip and where you were on the track is the main benefit to having a wideband IMO and 2nd being able to make that mental or physical link between a clean plug reading and a known AFR that makes the plug look clean like we want it.
This IMO is the benefit to a wideband and how they should be used not only in a Nitrous motor, but in ANY motor turbo, s/c or N/A.
