Wideband Kits

[No Crust Racing]

Morning Chaps,

Rather than heading to my local tuner just to check my AFR's are safe before the next track day (I've been doing some work on the car so thought it prudent) I might just invest in a cheap wideband/guage kit.

I'm looking at these two at present.

http://www.innovatem...oducts/MTXL.php

http://www.innovatem...products/db.php

Can any comment on if these are any good?

Any other suggestions for the same money?

If anyone has a kit they are looking to offload let me know also.

Cheers

[Adriano]

Dont get the innovate, ive had 2 of them die(its pretty common prob)

[No Crust Racing]

The Innovate box itself or the Bosh wideband they come with?

In that price range there's also the AEM ones but they don't do datalogging.

[STATUS]

Dont get the innovate, ive had 2 of them die(its pretty common prob)

Same, but they are cheap nowadays

[No Crust Racing]

What actually went wrong?

[STATUS]

What actually went wrong?

do you have an hour....

[No Crust Racing]

Hah, that bad hey.

I've been doing some more reading and the AEM seems to have more positive reviews in terms of reliability and longevity. The logging isn't as fancy, but some plain text numbers in a hyperterminal session are fine to me.

Seems to be more Innovates available second hand too.

Any other suggestions in this price range?

[DVS JEZ]

My innovate was a pain at first. Now all good.

Just make sure u start the car before turning it on or sometimes it re calibrates an u get faulty readings.

Im using LC1 with xd16 gauge.

[scotty nm35]

My LC1 is still going strong, a year and a half in my daily is pretty good imo. Perhaps they don't like the carbon build-up from rich tuning? Or I may have just bought a good one?

[89CAL]

The AEM UEGO Units are good. I've had mine for about 2 months now and can't fault it. It inputs AFR's into FC-Edit map watch which is all I really wanted it to do apart from being there to check everything was all good

You never have to calibrate it Which is great. Ive had an innovate throw out rediculous readings halfway through tuning and had to pull over, pull the sensor out and calibrate it, bit of a pain

Not gonna say to many things about the innovate units. Just saying the AEM ones are a good thing

[XRATED]

I've bought 3 LC1's... 2 have died (not the sensor), I havn't been game to wire up the 3rd.

Techedge..

[JonnoHR31]

also had 2 lc-1s die, seam to have turned to rubbish in the last few years.

[Don Dada]

Yea these sort of threads always bring up the shits of using innovate

I have been using the aem uego for may be close to 3yrs now permanently installed in the car and has not given me any wierd readings at anytime, responds quick and logs are very consistent

[No Crust Racing]

Thoughts on this?

Anyone got a link to get it cheaper elsehwhere?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290497232176&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_3546wt_906

[89CAL]

If it's genuine then it will be fine

[Wagonz]

I've been using a AEM for around 6 months and it has been great with no problems

[PM-R33]

Techedge 2J9. Great to use, good price and an Aussie brand. Never had problems and neither have my mates that use the same brand.

[No Crust Racing]

Yeah looked at those, kind of ugly and also more expensive.

[sucram]

I couldnt get my AEM to read consistently. It was one of their first batches when they first came out though so maybe they changed shit

[PM-R33]

Yeah looked at those, kind of ugly and also more expensive.

Ugly? It's a sensor and a control unit that you hide behind the dash

They may be more expensive but that's because they work well.