Info on Wideband air fuel ratio meter

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Would one work on a 2 stroke for testing, I am looking in to possibly buying one with a lambda sensor for setting up other bikes ( I have 8 now, non are standard). I hope every one is enjoying the long weekend.
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Hi Fred. Not 100% sure the difference between wide and narrowband gauges but.. I go to Mick Abbey regularly to use his dyno (great bloke & service, can't recommend him enough). His setup uses a lambda probe (some sort of heated car lambda I think) to a sensor box which give an instant display, and also feeds that into the dyno software to get a graph readout. It doesn't seem to mind 2 stroke even on my race TZR running A747.
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Yes it is a heated sensor. Just trawling the net now for info
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I have a wide band Koso sensor fitted to my KR.
Its a heated sensor and does load the battery quite heavily, so wouldn't be great on a total loss system.
Also with two strokes, they recommend fitting a probe shroud that masks the sensor from the oily residue you often get in two stroke exhausts
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That's interesting Tricia, would the shroud just be curved round the leading side of the sensor. I have read on a 2 stroke to weld on the threaded boss in the last segment of the downpipe before the first cone.
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According to Koso, it needs to be welded on I think about 20cm from the exhaust port.
The shroud looks like this and the 'hole' needs to be facing downstream;
https://bikemanperformance.com/snowmobi ... apter.html
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