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Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby D.A.M » Sat Aug 15, 2015 1:59 pm

So about a year ago I installed an Innovate Air/Fuel ratio gauge and the readings were correct and what not. Recently the readings began playing up and after some research I found that roughly every 20,000 kms the gauge should be re calibrated, I did so about 2 days ago and already the readings are playing up.

Any advice on what i might be doing wrong?

Im thinking that i should re calibrate it again but thoroughly clean the sensor or something.
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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby NitroDann » Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:32 pm

You have an earth problem or an exhaust leak
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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby D.A.M » Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:54 pm

its reading from the extractors so the if it were a leak it'd be coming from there i assume hey? worth swapping over the gasket?
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Postby NitroDann » Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:31 pm

Stock extractors crack at the collector often and the sensor is further down from there.
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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby D.A.M » Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:08 pm

Mine aftermarket CES Racing System ones, although they are aged, so you could be correct. ill check them out
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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby Steampunk » Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:47 pm

Is it the LC-1? If so then they are sensitive to significant vibration and heat and some instances fail very prematurely. Mount it on some thick foam/rubber (fireproof).
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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby chefie » Sat Dec 26, 2015 4:53 pm

D.A.M wrote:So about a year ago I installed an Innovate Air/Fuel ratio gauge and the readings were correct and what not. Recently the readings began playing up and after some research I found that roughly every 20,000 kms the gauge should be re calibrated, I did so about 2 days ago and already the readings are playing up.

Any advice on what i might be doing wrong?

Im thinking that i should re calibrate it again but thoroughly clean the sensor or something.



Hi Dam

did you solve this issue, i have an LC2 and it loses calibration and sends the MS into a weird rich setting. any help appreciated

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Re: Need help: Innovate Air/Fuel Gauge readings

Postby Dan » Sat Dec 26, 2015 5:21 pm

Possibly a ground (or power) problem as Dann suggested earlier.

But saying that I had a similar problem with mine on my Evo and after verifying power and ground were good I asked my tuner about it because it still wasn't holding calibration and he told me to connect to my PC via a serial>usb cable and open LM Programmer to explicitly set the fuel setting I wanted which solved the issue permanently.

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