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Old 09-13-2012, 06:29 AM   #5408
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Originally Posted by serialk11r View Post
Oh yea, @Dimman (the rest of the engine nerds seem to have disappeared ), at FSAE I asked them what their target lambda was (they use a Motec M400, fancy fancy) and the guy who did tuning told me they aimed for about 0.94 :O

It makes me wonder, because over the interwebz everyone seems to claim 0.85-0.9 is "ideal". Are they just full of shit? Maybe it's that the FSAE car has 14:1 compression pistons so the flame speed is naturally faster.
Is this referencing the output from a narrow band O2 sensor? I ask because those sound like plausible voltage output values and I've often heard the output called lambda, but this would be the first time I've heard of tuning with a narrow band.
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