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Third suggestion is if you want to actually make any sort of power install a different motor?My suggestion is exhaust gas temperature gauges are more important than either of the above.
My second suggestion is water methanol injection to keep EGT’s low.
Agree and I am looking to add an EGT gauge, where is the best practical place where you guys installed the probe?Tobash is right EGT is what you need, that turbo will not make enough boost to even be worth the effort.
On my turbo I am installing it where both cylinder banks come together in the turbo, it is hard to see in this picture, thought I had a better one but the shiny spot where the arrow is pointing is a plug in the hole I tapped at about 2 o'clock on the exhaust housing, this will give an average of all the cylinders.Agree and I am looking to add an EGT gauge, where is the best practical place where you guys installed the probe?
Ok, I think I see it, the little silver dot to the left of the arrow. How did you keep the metal shavings from dropping in when drilling? Or did you do it with the engine on the bench, taken apart? Would the temperature be closer to maximum at the cylinder heads than at this location?On my turbo I am installing it where both cylinder banks come together in the turbo, it is hard to see in this picture, thought I had a better one but the shiny spot where the arrow is pointing is a plug in the hole I tapped at about 2 o'clock on the exhaust housing, this will give an average of all the cylinders.
I just stuck that engine in a container and will not have it back out for a couple weeks when I can get a better picture, this of course was much easier with the turbo dissembled on the bench.
Other than that it is customary to mount the probe between the two rear cylinder ports on one side of the engine as in not directly in front of an exhaust port, or just down stream of the rear port.
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OK, got it, I can see it better in the opened one below where you installed it (it's on the other side of the circle, in that general area):Well you can use air to blow away most of the shavings while drilling (stop blowing as you get near penetration) and in the case of a manifold that you are drilling down into use a pencil magnet to pick out what little gets in, otherwise it is in the exhaust so what little you miss gets blown out the muffler.
when drilling cast iron as what MOST EGT installations involve the "cuttings" are very fine so they do not pose a great danger, if I was to drill a steel manifold I think I would drill down stream of the rear cylinder so gravity would take care of the cuttings as with steel the cuttings will be somewhat larger.
I did this turbo on the bench as I was rebuilding it.
Of course if you get so far down stream as the turbo all will simply be blown out with no danger of somehow getting into the combustion chamber, but the temp read will be a little lower than in the exhaust manifold
Yes, the transmission temp monitoring is on my list also and I read that there is already a thermistor built into the transmission, do you know the pin-out where to connect to access it?Glowshift has a combo EGT, boost and temp gauge. I was debating that and having the temp gauge be for the transmission temp. I have the stock hmmwv tach which works well.
I’m interested as well. Glow shift was closest in a combo gauge but one signal is still digital and I don’t know the answer on connections.Anyone knows of pyrometer/ egt, boost and transmission temp gauges with black bezel, white pointer and green backlight (or user replaceable backlight) to match the HMMWV ones?
What gauges are you happy with the look and function?
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