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Re: oxygen sensors

To: roadster <roadster@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: oxygen sensors
From: Pamela Pepoy <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 09:02:20 -0700
Fred,
Urgh! you mean my collection of 8 tracks might not be any good?  I thought this
technology lasted forever.
So true...but did you buy a BetaMax?   Oh, we have the smae taste in music and
other wonderful sounds (like a nicely tuned engine).
Guy

roadster wrote:

> Guy,
>
> I know nothing about them. Came across them while surfing yesterday. Maybe
> Calspeed can ask his Z buddies, I often see the Z crowd with multiple gauges
> on the dash.
>
> Don't get me started about 8-track stereos! Don't feel that old (very late
> forties) but I started out with a 4-track stereo in my '56 Chevy, then
> upgraded to the 8-track. I kept dozens of those 4-track and 8-track
> cartridges, even though my player broke down long ago. Recently I scored on
> a 8-track recorder/player for $5 and tried playing them. Urk! The seams on
> the tapes separated, and the internal pads fell apart. Someday I'll repair
> them, put them in my roadster and drive all night listening to The Moody
> Blues, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf etc. like I used to do.
>
> Who needs gauges when you have music (or the engine) to listen to.
>
> Fred - So.SF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pamela Pepoy" <gppepoy@cybertrails.com>
> To: "roadster" <roadster@rcn.com>
> Cc: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@hodge.sfsu.edu>;
> <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: oxygen sensors
>
> > Fred,
> > I am curious if anyone has installed this type of meter.  If so what did
> they
> > learn?  Do they have a recomendation?  Unfortunately, I am not at all
> > experienced with this item.  Seems like it would be a helpful diagnostic
> tool
> > for maintaining the Solex set-up I am installing on the stroker.  Then
> again,
> > I'm the early adaptor that purchased an 8 track stereo and later upgraded
> to a
> > 400 watt 4 channel sound system. And I might add, I still have both
> systems (in
> > my garage).  I did pass on the Beta system.  Just too slow I guess.
> > Guy
> > Tempe, AZ
> >
> > roadster wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel,
> > >
> > > Check out this auction item "Datsun Analog Air/Fuel Electronic Meter",
> it
> > > shows different gauges ranging from $55 to $72 and comes with an
> > > installation guide.
> > >
> > >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=588141479&;
> > > r=0&t=0
> > >
> > > Fred - So.SF
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@hodge.sfsu.edu>
> > > To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:46 PM
> > > Subject: oxygen sensors
> > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > > I am thinking of installing an oxygen sensor in my car to aid in
> tunning
> > > > and just for the heck of it.. I figure that my car jsut needs yet
> another
> > > > gadjet.  Does anybody have any experience with them?? I hear that the
> > > three
> > > > wire type is more accurate than one wire and then I have heard that
> the
> > > type
> > > > of meter you get to read them is important also???
> > > > Anybody have any helpfull info??
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Daniel 69 2000
> > > > SF CA

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