EGT

[Johnny]

Tom Cloud wrote:
> 
> I still don't know what you expect to see.  In a plane, you
> peak the temp (stoich) and then lower it a certain number of
> degrees to the rich side (that'd be max power).  If you did
> that in a car (and I *can* do that with the ProJection),
> the mixture would change the instant the operating condition
> changed.  The actual value of the temperature means little
> (seems t'me) -- it's the amount you're off the peak, and the
> peak temp will change with varying operating conditions, so
> setting the EGT for some particular temp is meaningless.  Now,
> with the EGO, I *always* know that stoich is ~.5 volts and
> anything higher is rich and lower is lean.  I don't know how much,
> but you can't tell it with the EGT either -- esp since the
> peak (stoich) temp is varying.  I can watch the EGO and know
> *something*.  And once I've read my plugs a few times, I'll
> have a baseline to reference (for off stoich) and I'll
> always know where stoich is, if I want to tune for that.

And your going to use your EGO with leaded fuel, right?

-j-