On Tuesday I stopped at a diesel shop in Calgary to get a hole drilled and tapped in my exhaust manifold for my Juice/Attitude. I made sure and asked the guy if he knew how and where to do it. He said he did. I paid for it, went out and popped the hood. Where's the hole? 8-10" past the turbo, on the downpipe is where. I went in and asked why they put it there, and the explanation I got:
"We find that if we put the thermocouple in the manifold it hits 1600F right away, and the chip defuels. So we put it where we did so that it doesn't read as high."
Now, I've proven countless times that I'm not the smartest kid around, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of putting in a pyro? One of the reasons I went with the chip is because of the safety features built in. Now one of those safety features may have been removed. I was never informed that this would occur, and I wasn't given any reason to believe that they would deviate from Edge's instructions.
Now, with a cold air intake, no cat, no muffler, the highest I can get my EGTs to go is about 700F. I can't imagine the airflow mods I've made allow the temps to stay that low, but I can't imagine there's a difference of 5-600 degrees between where the thermocouple is and where it should have been.
Does anybody know how to adjust the EGT readings so that the chip defuels when it's supposed to? I think until someone tells me otherwise I'm dropping the limit to 700F. I've got to try pretty hard to get it that hot, so maybe that's where it should be.
"We find that if we put the thermocouple in the manifold it hits 1600F right away, and the chip defuels. So we put it where we did so that it doesn't read as high."
Now, I've proven countless times that I'm not the smartest kid around, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of putting in a pyro? One of the reasons I went with the chip is because of the safety features built in. Now one of those safety features may have been removed. I was never informed that this would occur, and I wasn't given any reason to believe that they would deviate from Edge's instructions.
Now, with a cold air intake, no cat, no muffler, the highest I can get my EGTs to go is about 700F. I can't imagine the airflow mods I've made allow the temps to stay that low, but I can't imagine there's a difference of 5-600 degrees between where the thermocouple is and where it should have been.
Does anybody know how to adjust the EGT readings so that the chip defuels when it's supposed to? I think until someone tells me otherwise I'm dropping the limit to 700F. I've got to try pretty hard to get it that hot, so maybe that's where it should be.