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Old Nov 9, 2005, 08:15 AM
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air fuel ratio reading

i am buying a air/fuel ratio gauge, it is not digital so it has the numbers on it. i did some searching and found on the newbi thread that one person was running like 13.3 or something?! i was wondering if anyone knows what number it should be running at, so what would be lean/what would be rich/ and whats just right?!
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Originally Posted by wudbevo
i am buying a air/fuel ratio gauge, it is not digital so it has the numbers on it. i did some searching and found on the newbi thread that one person was running like 13.3 or something?! i was wondering if anyone knows what number it should be running at, so what would be lean/what would be rich/ and whats just right?!
Not sure about the numbers, but make sure you get a wideband o2 to go with that... or you're going to end up with a christmas light party on your dash.
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Originally Posted by blaze_125
Not sure about the numbers, but make sure you get a wideband o2 to go with that... or you're going to end up with a christmas light party on your dash.
yeah i know i need a wideband for a more eccurate reading but i dont have 300 dollars to spend on one!
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and if I remember right...

below 14.7 is richer
14.7 is perfect
above 14.7 is leaner
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14.7 is idle and stoich.. while cruising. lol if you tune for 14.7 when WOT you go boom. I think 12.3 is ideal but i'm not sure. look up threads by Alchemist.
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so tune when idle? i always thought when at wot.
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you tune at wot. you cant tune at idle much and if you do its pointless
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Originally Posted by N1te
you tune at wot. you cant tune at idle much and if you do its pointless
Well... at WOT and different rpm range right?
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yeah exactly.
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n/a tune for about 12.6-8... i think FI tunes for about 12 flat... not forsure about FI... but im n/a and that is what mine is set too
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i tuned for about 12.5.. you can adjust anything over 30% throttle.. there really is no point too touch anything else b/c the ecu keeps the mixture right at 14.7 anyway. At WOT i was dipping down into the 10:1 range before I installed the emanage.
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It really hard to blow up NA cars, because the margin for error is bigger when comparing to turbo. You have to outright neglect it for a long time.
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