Individual cylinder EGT probes?

[calereeves]

Anybody found a good looking way to display 8 EGTs? I've found an aircraft-style single gauge, but mounting a 3-1/8" square faced gauge in an LMM cab, I can't imagine a spot that would look even halfway decent.
http://thesensorconnection.com/gaug...-digital-thermocouple-pyrometer-gauge-display


Then there's this red alert stand alone monitor/logger, but it's a clunky box that doesn't appear to have an easy way to directly and real-time display EGTs.
http://www.altronicsinc.com/data-recorders/redalert-egt-recorder-1.html

The red alert is $1000. To me, that's not only phenomenal tuning fidelity, but also the best insurance against ANOTHER hung injector I can think of. If I'd seen a huge spike in the #8 cylinder that wasn't within tolerances of the other 7 cylinders, I wouldn't be in the middle of a complete build right now. To that end, I'm looking at 12-15k for a solid build, and an extra grand to know when to reach up and shut it down is money well spent.


So....is anyone else running something similar in a street truck, and how did you choose to display the outputs?

Thanks!
Cale

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[calereeves]

Nobody?

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[PACougar]

Honestly I doubt you'll be watching 8 probe temps while you're at wot. Don't let me stop you, but I think you're going to be wasting your money.

 

[Cknight199]

Edge cts can watch 8 pid's at once but... With how often they fail you'll be replacing some of them pretty often IMO. And it will be costly.


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[PureHybrid]

You'd be better off running an actual data logger with many more inputs.

 

[henery97]

What are you doing with the truck? Is it competion only or a street truck?? Most data logging systems will support 8 TC inputs for individual cylinders

 

[c20elephant]

I use a probe in each manifold, the EGT's on heavy acceleration the passenger side will jump to 1200f + while the drivers lags behind about 2-300F. While cruising both settle to about 6-700f. Wish I would have mounted it on the dash kinda difficult to monitor below the line of sight. Have a new ABS bend just need to start the band saw and sander and fit it to the dash.
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[calereeves]

It's a street truck that will see very limited heavy tow duty. But it's gonna be a FUN street truck. My biggest concern is finding a system that will output the data in a usable format. An aircraft-style bar graph would be fine, along with an alarm when any one reaches too high, or is a certain percentage higher than the rest.

The data logging aspect is fairly easy, I've found several systems that are capable of may more than 8 inputs, the problem is the output system that makes it usable real-time.

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[henery97]

You could get a digital dash for the datalogger to display realtime

 

[RPM Motorsports]

http://www.racepak.com/Drag_Racing/V300SD.php