Pyrometer Location
#1
Pyrometer Location
On 3.5s with FWD manifolds, which cylinder usually runs leanest? Where you guys recommend I put a probe?
I remember seeing a good article talking about the best placement, mentioning that if you get temp from a single cylinder it wont be very accurate since it picks up pulses and not a constant flow, so its better to put it on a bank instead (such as one leg of the ypipe, perhaps the leg that includes the leanst cylinder). what yall think?
I remember seeing a good article talking about the best placement, mentioning that if you get temp from a single cylinder it wont be very accurate since it picks up pulses and not a constant flow, so its better to put it on a bank instead (such as one leg of the ypipe, perhaps the leg that includes the leanst cylinder). what yall think?
Last edited by streetzlegend; 08-26-2010 at 09:06 PM.
#2
About 1-2" down the primary, on the hottest cyl. I'm not sure what cylinder runs the hottest though. You could install 6 EGTs like they do in planes, and monitor each cylinder lol.
When I melted pistons on my VQ30, it was the front center, and front driver's side that melted - take that for what it's worth. Maybe those are the hottest, but maybe it was just luck of the draw as far as which ones I melted when I overboosted.
Which cylinders did you crack ring lands in and/or blow the head gasket on? If you can figure out some consistency with which cylinders people are having problems with, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet as to what cylinders run the hottest on our cars.
edit: the other two times i had problems with a VQ, once it was the rear driver's side cyl, and once it was the front passenger and front driver's side cyl. not much consistency there. i bet you can find some more data if you search other people's blown HG or cracked ring land posts.
When I melted pistons on my VQ30, it was the front center, and front driver's side that melted - take that for what it's worth. Maybe those are the hottest, but maybe it was just luck of the draw as far as which ones I melted when I overboosted.
Which cylinders did you crack ring lands in and/or blow the head gasket on? If you can figure out some consistency with which cylinders people are having problems with, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet as to what cylinders run the hottest on our cars.
edit: the other two times i had problems with a VQ, once it was the rear driver's side cyl, and once it was the front passenger and front driver's side cyl. not much consistency there. i bet you can find some more data if you search other people's blown HG or cracked ring land posts.
#4
Yeah, for sure im not going to put 6 probe$. For my head gasket on the 3.0, both gaskets were had on all cylinders lol, and for the ring lands, i never took it apart so im not sure. For the bad 3.5 I got, the cylinder that threw a rod was rear driver driver side like Neal. One closes to the throttle body.
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