| boosted79 |
03-19-2017 10:26 AM |
There are ways to read pre-turbo but it takes some plumbing. You have to take a small flow from pre-turbo thru like a 1/4 line and rout it into a small canister like a section of 1" pipe that has the wide band mounted in it. The discharge of the canister is large, like 3/4 tube and goes into the down pipe from the turbo upstream of the muffler or just dump to atmosphere on a race car. This way the WB sees the flow from pre-turbo but not the back pressure pre-turbo because the discharge from the canister is so much larger than the inlet from pre-turbo so you don't have to compensate the WB reading for the back pressure. This works for V's (or flat 6's) running a single turbo with ITB's and you want to trim AFR for each bank by having a WB on each side. Downside for a street car besides all the plumbing is carbon plugging in the small tube and you are constantly bypassing some gas around the turbo, not a problem on a race engine where it runs hot and is on the wastegate most of the time.
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