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Re: Tuning Question - bad water temp sensor effect on performance

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Subject: Re: Tuning Question - bad water temp sensor effect on performance
From: Stan Whitney <dp25sdw@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
If it were very far off, you would have significant
cold start troubles, mosts systems probably don't use
water temp. for enrichment after about 70-80 degrees
C. (about 180-200F), so once you reach that range, it
would have minimal effect.

Still, better safe than sorry...

Stan


--- Scott Meyers <solo2@uswest.net> wrote:
> A little break from the Nationals
> discussions........
> 
> I'm working on a "project car", one that will
> (hopefully) soon grace the
> pylon jungle.  I've just finished doing the timing
> belt, and with that
> the water pump, cam seals, and all the hard to get
> to hoses and other
> stuff therein. As long as you're there, right?
> 
> I also decided to change the water temp sensor "just
> because" it was
> old. In doing so I found serious corrosion on the
> two connectors,
> leaving me to believe that it was sending either
> *no* signal or the
> *default* message to the computer.
> 
> The question - what effect on performance would a
> faulty water temp
> sensor have on a car's performance in a Solo 2
> setting?  Oh - it's a
> Nissan with factory multiport injection.    :-)
> 
> Thanks for any and all shared experiences.
> 
> Scott Meyers
> 
> 
> 
> 


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