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Old Jul 15, 2002 | 10:29 PM
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I know on most carb. small blocks the hottest temp is #6 but what about A EFI LT1 ?


I am about to put a gauge on my car and was wondering which clyinder. I would assume not 7 or 8 !

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 10:54 AM
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I can't believe nobody knows this???????????????????????
Old Jul 17, 2002 | 11:00 AM
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I've got mine on #7, but only because that's where the bung was on the "used" headers. They were off a fairly potent blown EFI LT1.

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 11:05 AM
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Thanks for the info. What kind of temps are you seeing N/A and N20. I have a similar set up.

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 02:37 PM
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I've heard a few people running them on the #1 cylinder on LT1's.

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 02:43 PM
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I'm considering adding EGT Bungs to all 8 cylinders before I coat my headers.. That way I can run a DataLogger and view all 8

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 03:11 PM
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Tom Byrne picked up an 8-channel EGT monitor/recorder from an airplane engine, and put it in his girlfriends LT1.

http://www.tbyrne.com/z28/etg.html

I'll pull some logs up when I get home from work and post the typical NA and N2O temps.

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Old Jul 17, 2002 | 03:34 PM
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I would think that the (2) back cylinders is not a good place for readings due to the poor airflow on the intake? That would be 7,8
Old Jul 17, 2002 | 03:47 PM
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#5 and #6 are typically the hottest
Old Jul 18, 2002 | 08:56 AM
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I looked at some of the logs... hard to generalize, since there are always some differences in the setup. Running one stage (125HP) of juice, and knowing it is set up rich, the end of track EGT's seem fairly consistant at 1580degF. I found one run where the bottle was way too low, and EGT tailed off to 1,423degF by the end of the track, as bottle pressure disappeared.... a fuel "quench".

I only have one log with the full hit of nitrous (275HP), and it was running lean because of TPS voltage problems, and peaked at 1,634degF before I realized it wasn't right and got out of it. I could only find one NA pass, and that showed 1,590degF at the top of 3rd gear - when the car was still an M6.

Interestingly, during the engine dyno tune pulls we (actually the guys at Second Street) couldn't find any maldistribution of air on the NA pulls, or of the air/N2O on the nitrous pulls. This is a dry system, spraying through two fan-jet nozzles in the outlet of the Ram Air airbox. The plugs seemed extremely uniform, and it was not necessary to use the individual cylinder fuel trims at all. As much as I hate the CNC Cylinder Heads, Inc. exhaust porting, they seemed to have a pretty good handle on the modifications required to the LT4 intake to get good results.

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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 10:08 AM
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Fred Your living on the edge my friend 1450+ is lil high..1590 is right at molten piston stage...Try adding some fuel might suprise you I assume this is on pump gas but even still its some high recall readings you have..Are you sure its not detonating?

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Old Jul 18, 2002 | 11:17 AM
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I have heard of blower cars reading 1500. They did say that was to high for that car too.

So I should stay under 1450? N/A and N20
Old Jul 18, 2002 | 11:54 AM
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Yes Ideally "below" 1450 for n/a and n20 as well..ideally n20 being a lil cooler than your n/a reading.
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