Well, I have gotten my new motor running and have been slowly breaking it in. I hit 300 miles, changed the oil which came out almost completely clean, and now I'm up to about 400 miles. My question is this, what are your EGTs typically when you are just cruising at low throttle like 10-20% and 65-70mph? I am seeing 750 and sometimes even the warning light at 800 is coming on. I'm just curious what the normal EGT reading for cruising is.

 

Is the gauge in F or C degree's??

I hope to god it is F

Brian

 

When I cruise at 80, my egt is between 700~725

 

700-725C??? if tha seems way to high!! that is 1300F!!! holy **** and you are just cruising...

i always shoot for 1000-1100 F and this is tapped at the # 1 runner about 2 inchest from the head..
Brian

 

As stupid as this probably is, I've never checked if it was in C or F.. I'm assuming its C. Its an Apexi EL EGT gauge. I would say that it spends most of its time in te 700-725 range, but occasionally goes up to the 750+ mark. I'm not running any boost yet on the motor, but on my old motor it did the same thing until I hit boost and the EGTs would actually drop a bit.


[Modified by MayhemSi, 7:44 PM 1/21/2003]

 

I am not sure guys.. i am using the autometer EGT, and under boost the max EGT i hit is 1450F..
and you guys are cruising at that temp.!!

where are the probes tapped in at??

And yes the Apex meter is in C

 

i ahve the autometer too , like idle is 800 F , street cruising , maybe 1000F tops, and highway is like 1300F maybe 1350, right around in there.
i have the max rev manifold, so mine is on the second port , right behind the WG . maybe 2-3 in off the head, ? something like that

 

Mine is in the second runner as well about 2.5 inches off the head.

 

Highway cruising around 75mph mine is around 12-1300 at the most. Around town if i stay out of boost is 1000F or less.

 

I alwyas though you were to tap #3 it was the hottest....

 

well see that the other thing
i always thought the cyls go
1 2 3 4
but found out they go
4 3 2 1
so if thats the case mine is on 3
i cant believe i have went all these years thinking that and then foudn out i was totally opposite.

 

cylinder 1 is closest to the timing belt.

mine reads aound 1200F on highway with a/f at around 15.5


[Modified by rice4life, 3:55 PM 1/21/2003]