Stock Air Temp Sensor

[Northernboy]

Just wondering if it is worth it to mount the stock air temp sensor in the intercooler?
To me it should be measuring the air that is going into the engine and not the ambient air temp.

 

[Jona$]

good question, would love to hear a explanation from some turbohardheaded.

 

[gunnerthesnowman]

Just wondering if it is worth it to mount the stock air temp sensor in the intercooler?
To me it should be measuring the air that is going into the engine and not the ambient air temp.

Yes it should be mounted after the inter-cooler , before the motor

 

[Northernboy]

The problem I see with mounting the sensor in the intercooler is as air temperature goes up it would lean out the mixture thus making it more prone to detonation. Is this an accurate theory?

 

[gunnerthesnowman]

The problem I see with mounting the sensor in the intercooler is as air temperature goes up it would lean out the mixture thus making it more prone to detonation. Is this an accurate theory?

What turbo system are you running , what fuel box , I run a vipec standalone and my map is made for my sled with AIT correction , if I remember right with my Alpine turbo kit with the pure logic the air temp. sensor was mounted ( zip tied ) just under the hood .

 

[FLYBYU]

If your running a piggyback system it should be in the intercooler as the factory ecu is still reading it. I'm running a standalone system and it still needs to be in the intercooler.

 

[rxrider]

If this is a off the shelf turbo kit like MCX it is installed outside the IC to read ambient outside temperature.

Custom systems With standalone ECU computers are designed to run the sensor inside the IC using the sensor input.

MCX and most turbo kits do not have this capability.

 

[Northernboy]

Also stock sensor were probably not designed for higher temperature so that's why most turbo companies recommend mounting outside to read ambient air temperature.
I'm going to mount a temperature sensor in my intercooler and tie it into my data logger to see how hot it actually gets.

 

[FLYBYU]

When i bought the cpr kit, he had the bung on the intercooler for it.

 

[Tarzan]

Doesnt Powderlites intercooler for the Nytro have the sensor in it?