Can't decide if I really need EGT gauge.. I plan to purchase safeguard, it monitors engine for knocking, wouldn't it serve better than egt since it retards timing? I plan to get the car tuned with wideband O2/hondata..



[Modified by vtec.dc2, 1:59 AM 1/14/2003]

 

Why not get them both and sleep nicely at night.

 

Yeah, it's real nice to see your exhaust temps all the time, on and off boost.

 

any other opinions on this?

 

Get them both.

Sonny

 

hmm.. to me it seems like they all do the same thing...

for instance.. a/f would show change if running bad mixture/spark.. as well as egt would read different, so i kinda see them as the same thing.. safeguard reads knocking, so.. wouldn't knocking occur from again bad mixture/spark? plus it changes timing...

 

Well, there really isn't a gauge that is going to prevent something from happening if it goes bad. But, for example, I have a Greddy EGT gauge and it has a Peak/Hold memory and a warning light that comes on at whatever temp I set it to. So, once I start to boost for a long time and start to get a little hotter than normal, a red light comes on and lets me know and I can let off or whatever. Safeguard would be the more functioning piece to get since it will actually do something, but the gauges are nice to see things before they happen. Like Sonny said, they can be used together.