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skidude 08-14-2008 06:04 PM

Narrowband Reads Wrong
 
My narrowband has decided to stop reading rich. Ever.

it reads 14.7 a lot, and it reads lean a lot, but it never reads rich.

I know the car runs rich sometimes because I just switched to 460cc injectors from the stock 1.8 ones, and I started it once before I changed the req fuel. Still no rich reading. I also have played with settings to make it run really rich just to test the sensor, and still nothing.

Is the sensor dead, or is there a setting somewhere I accidentally changed that would cause this?

btw, I have an LC-1 but I can't find anybody to weld the bung into the stock exhaust without charging me an hour of labor, and I'm replacing the whole thing with a new exhaust soon anyway so I can't justify the expense.

KPLAFIN 08-14-2008 06:05 PM

Wow, a narrowband that doesn't read right? who'd have ever thought?

paul 08-14-2008 06:08 PM

is the car turbo'd? or are you using the factory header in which the o2 bung is too close to the engine to swap the WB for NB?

bryantaylor 08-14-2008 06:27 PM


Originally Posted by KPLAFIN (Post 296509)
Wow, a narrowband that doesn't read right? who'd have ever thought?

i know, shocking

Efini~FC3S 08-14-2008 06:29 PM

this just in Russia invades Georgia!!

skidude 08-14-2008 07:43 PM

I know, I'm not excited that it's narrowband either.

Nope, not turboed yet. Stock header. I tried to get the old sensor out to stick the WB in there for a couple weeks until I put the new exhaust but the old one is too stuck. I broke a borrowed O2 removal tool in my attempts, so I gave up. It didn't even pretend it was interested in budging.

Looks like I'm sensorless until I go FI and have the correct sensor, eh?

What confused me is that it would read alright for a while, but then it just stopped reading rich, ever. I've been tuning off and on so I didn't know if I just changed some setting somewhere without noticing that it killed the reading or something. Guess I won't worry about it too much then. I'm running pretty rich everywhere right now I think. The plugs are pretty black. I don't really want to change anything with no feedback though.

Ugh. I hate living in a place with no decent shops. Honestly. An hour to weld in a bung? I don't even care if it leaks a little, since the whole exhaust is shot and I'm ripping it out in 2 weeks anyway.

paul 08-14-2008 08:35 PM

you want a free stock 94-97 without an o2 sensor stuck in it? you pay shipping.

skidude 08-15-2008 08:12 AM


Originally Posted by paul (Post 296591)
you want a free stock 94-97 without an o2 sensor stuck in it? you pay shipping.

Thank you, but I think I won't bother. Between the shipping and the installation it's just more than I want to bother with. I ordered all the new exhaust pieces already it's just going to end up being a matter of when my friend can help me weld it all up.

Duckie_uk 08-15-2008 08:35 AM

I'll take it please, if its going.


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