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Reply to "Seeking feedback and recommendations from Wide Band 02 users"

My opinion is that a wide and O2 sensor can be useful, but are more valuable on a dyno, than on the street.

I had imagined I would be able to get a nice straight line at the stoichiometric mixture on the display, but while you are driving a car, there are so many variables changing that it is  really difficult to judge exactly what is happening at any given time.

IF you have additional information - like you would get with a Fuel Injection setup - you could correlate your O2 ratio to throttle position, gear, RPM, vacuum, etc.  Just looking at a graph of O2 ratio, you don’t have all that other context.

On a dyno, you will have a constant load, controllable RPM, no unexpected accelerator pump shots, constant vacuum, etc.

If you look on my 5357 thread, I had a wide and O2 sensor, and posted some plots up.  I got helpful feedback, but….  I found the plots to be less instructive than I had hoped.

Obviously, if you have a lot of experience evaluating this kind of data, it would be much more helpful!

But it is easy to put bungs in!  You should do it!

Rocky

Last edited by rocky
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