wondering if anyone has had any melt down issues with stock motor and which cylinder is best for egt. for high horsepower aplications?

any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

The topic was bantered about a few years back and everyone had different ideas. I went with #4.

 

Put an EGT sensor in EACH cylinder otherwise it's pretty useless imo.

 

however most owners do not have the cash to have 4 egts and a controller/gauge that responds at the proper rate.

I have mine a coupe of inches after the final collector in the header.

While this is a lower reading then having it 2" for the exhaust port and one must account for this.

It serves it purpose when doing steady state tuning.

 

i went with #3.

 

Holy crap I hope you plan on heat wrapping the coolant line for the heater control valve! Its kinda close to the wastgate...

 

#4 here, as well.

 

I am going with number 3 when I finish my set-up. From all the reading I've been doing, #3 is found (in most debates on this topic) to get the hottest....too bad I feel so horrible having to drill and weld the bung to my shiney new FR mani...... =(

 

That may be true...but what purpose does that serve?

You have 3 other cylinders that aren't being monitored ??

You might as well take your wideband reading off a random cylinder as well...

I'd say monitor each, or don't bother doing it @ all.

 

I see your point, but I would rather monitor the hottest cyclinder and get a general idea of where my EGT is, instead of having no clue. To be honest, I am planning on purchasing three more down the road, but I would want to find out if I have enough ports to run all the sensors on my AEM EMS first, LOL.. I hope I do!