IAT sensor location Vs tune accuracy?
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Well, in theory you could. In reality, I suspect you'd probably have four O2 sensors rapidly getting flaky from being installed that close to the head. The hardware isn't quite as baller as the software.
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I never have any issues with my LC-1 on the street either. It's only after about 10 minutes on track where it will peg on 15.1 and not move because the sensor gets overheated, and that's running N/A. If the street-only drivers really want the precision of per-cylinder EGO control and have the coin for three more widebands burning holes in their pockets, great, I agree it should work fine for them. But I suspect that the people who are going to bother with actually taking measurements of per-cylinder [anything] are mostly a subset of the track crew, and my experience suggests that <4 of those sensors will be outputting meaningful numbers after 10 minutes of manly driving on track when installed in the typically short runners of Miata turbo manis. At the least, you'd have to work out some killer heat sinking.
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I never have any issues with my LC-1 on the street either. It's only after about 10 minutes on track where it will peg on 15.1 and not move because the sensor gets overheated, and that's running N/A. If the street-only drivers really want the precision of per-cylinder EGO control and have the coin for three more widebands burning holes in their pockets, great, I agree it should work fine for them. But I suspect that the people who are going to bother with actually taking measurements of per-cylinder [anything] are mostly a subset of the track crew, and my experience suggests that <4 of those sensors will be outputting meaningful numbers after 10 minutes of manly driving on track when installed in the typically short runners of Miata turbo manis. At the least, you'd have to work out some killer heat sinking.
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If the copper is enough then that's good news for me. I acquired a little sheet of it after my last track day, just haven't gotten around to making the heat sink yet. I was kind of wondering how much of a difference it would make. How long (years, miles, track days, whatever) have they held up in your installation? Reason I ask is that I had no problems with mine for over a year, then this season it started heat-locking on me. IDK if my sensor is just going bad with age or if I'm just driving the car in a more manly fashion this season, both of which are likely.
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