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By maddog2020
#47591
I wouldn't bother. All you are really going to get from a sensor on the intake is the heat soak temperature of the metal intake. you would be better off adding an air temp sensor to the air stream to show the real air temp. better yet wire it to the ecu if yours has that function and it will data log it and adjust the tune based on the actual air temp.
By worf
#47621
What SG said. If you want to measure intake *air charge* temperature you need a fast-reacting sender in the *air* stream.

If you want to measure intake *metal* temperature then the current switch location is fine.

In general, for a NA motor charge temperature should be lower than “metal” temperature.

In a boosted application you’d like it to be...
By worf
#47627
Shifted wrote: Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:55 pm There are a couple of older and very informative threads on Rennlist that yielded results different from yours.
Post the links; i’ll look at’em.

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