F-Body Europe

Sure you won't be impressed, but I am still proud of running 11 PSI of boost on my civic without killing it, and here is proof.


P.S.
-It had 10.1:1 compression from the factory (and they were not forged pistons).
-I never opened the engine.
-The red line was 8,000 RPM (that is not a miss-print)It hit the rev limiter at 8,200
-It had NO TORQUE what so ever!!!(Thats why it needed to rev so high)
-After running that much boost the best G-Tech 1/4 mile I could get was 14.2 seconds.
-Meaning that I spent all of that money just to make my car as fast as a stock Camaro!?!?!?!
-But I did learn a lot about superchargers and boost!!!!
Top speed was 152.8 MPH(edit not 158.2 oops) ( I did that more than a few times in it)
Hope you enjoy. Peace

Yo dude, how did you like the air/fuel ratio guage? was it responsive enough? Did it use the stock O2 sensor or did it come with one you had to add to your exhaust?
Was thinking of getting a pair of them to monitor the right and left banks. And then maybe safely play with some different pulleys

Chickenkiller,
The autometer AF guages work with a stock O2 sensor. They aren't bad for monitoring your A/F. It's an easy 3 wire hook-up. +.-, O2 sig. You can use a switch and 2 LEDS and switch banks and use only 1 gauge if you want to. That's what 99TAWS6 did and I am in the process of doing.

Yeah, what Dark Angel said. It worked pretty good. I have seen others and think the Autometer was the best. Of course the only true way to get real-time info is to use a wide band O2 sensor, but they are close to $1,000 a piece. I used the autometer very successfully I think. Just take your time and be paitent (sp?). It takes a while to get a car set up right, but if you take your time you won't be rebuilding the engine. What set up are you running, Vortech, ATI ProCharger(#1), KenneBell, Paxton, Powerdyne?

I have a Vortech S-Trim 8psi kit on mine. I was wanting to get the a/f guages to be safe while I experiment with different pulley sizes and/or water injection. I keep hearing the term "wideband" buzzword ??? what does this mean? a/f is a/f right? if you're rich you're rich if you're lean you're lean right?? What will a wideband bring to tha party? Please fill in my blanks ??

read my post afterwards I don't mean to sound like a smartass sorry... I just don't understand "wideband"

Later

A wide band O2 sensor is what is used in diagnostic shops. It will show "real-time" as to what your A/F ratio is. The AutoMeter and what not use your stock O2 sensor and it is slower. It will be fine, like I said the AutoMeter is the best cheaper one I have seen. Only race teams and some dynos use the wide band O2. As I said they are very expensive. Peace

Biggest problem with the stock o2 is they are terribley inaccurate if you stray to far from stoich (14.7:1) a wide band O2 should give decent feedback with mixtures as rich as 12.5:1 Hence the term wide band.