Exhaust temp sensors

[Jody Shapiro]

On Thu, 15 May 1997 FreshMar at aol.com wrote:

>  Has anyone tried thermosensors on individual exhaust pipes, to monitor 
> the exhaust temps for more analytical data? They could return the optimum 
> exhaust temp (600F?),any higher could be interpreted as 'too lean'. This 
> could be another cheap engine tuning tool? Or wont it? It will not be 
> immediate or instantanious, but could show differences in each cylender, 
> providing the thermosensors are of high quality and equally accurate.
> Mario T.

Julie Small from the f-body list has aircraft EGT sensors on each of her
exhaust header tubes.  She also has an an aircraft EGT gauge that cycles
through each cylinder displaying the temp as well as high-lighting the
peak cylinder's temp.

You can see the gauge she's using at the bottom of this page:
http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/tbyrne/cars/juliescar.html
http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/julie/etg.jpg

-Jody

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