Engine Temp how hot is too hot?
So I was just wondering what any of you guys think about this? A few years ago I went camping in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. A place called Tuff Campground. I drove an all stock other than a 4in turbo ...
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mkirsch wrote:
Everybody keeps saying how the gauges are no better than idiot lights...
If they're functioning properly, they will tell you when it's too hot, even if they're just "idiot gauges."
Unless you go old school with mechanical gauges, you're still depending on the computer and electronic sensors to tell you what the definition of is is. What's saying the sensor is not an idiot sensor too?
Idiots lights are binary (on/off). Monitors are continuous and allow you to see several different parameters at the the same time (and also sometimes require interpretation). I'll take monitors over idiot lights any day, I'd rather know the big picture. Mechanical gauges (and the probes/sensors that feed them) are subject to failure as well. I'd also take mechanical gauges (like the gauge I run for EGT) over an idiot light any day.
