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Old 08-10-2015, 09:11 AM   #291 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobertISaar View Post
air temp sensors can be quite laggy in comparison to actual air temp rise.... their thermal mass just takes too long to match the temp of the incoming air to be accurate unless held in similar conditions for fairly long periods of time, something like 60 seconds may be necessary get 90% of the delta for some sensors. I wouldn't be surprised if that were happening here if measured temps only rise that much.
Great point^^^^^

I forgot he is probably using a "blow through" MAF with the IAT sensor built in (a guess). Those are very slow reacting.

I'm used to using the "bulb"/stand alone style sensors (PD blower applications) which are nearly instantaneous. I'm mostly using OEM stuff reading through the OEM ECU. I did have some issue with wonky reading on our 2015 Mustang GT sensor so I put a second/stand along gauge to verify what I was seeing (end up the ECU was wrong). I used this one here:

Prosport Intake air temperature gauge, instant read air temperature gauge.

Inexpensive and almost instantaneous. And as far as I can tell very accurate (I rane a few tests on it). They also have one for turbo cars that has two sensors/readouts so you can do a pre and post IC measurement.

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