Tuning Noob, 3 gauges

[txrxs]

I'm new to the whole tuning thing, yet i will be schooled this winter. I was going to go with a 3 gauge setup on pillar. I was going to purchase boost, egt, and aemwideband. I was talking to one of my friends who is very good at tuning turbo cars and he said egt is all you will need as far as tuning, and that getting egt and aemwide band is overkill. So if this is true, what gauge should i get instead of the aemwideband, or should i just go: boost, egt, and air/fuel(not aem uego). Thanks...

[jersey_emt]

I would say go with your original plan, or replace the EGT with an oil pressure gauge.

[Dexter]

i think all 3 + oil pressure is good

[Brian MP5T]

Stick With the Wideband...

[Tommy1005]

boost, wideband, oil pressure. A normal a/f gauge is crap, all it does is bounce around until you go full throttle.

[II-Savy]

boost, wideband, oil pressure. A normal a/f gauge is crap, all it does is bounce around until you go full throttle.
This what an A/F gauge is supposed to do. You don't tune with it, it shows generally how rich or lean you are running. Also it's not bouncing, it's showing you the voltage change, the scale is so tight that it looks like that's all it does. It's reading voltage.

[Tommy1005]

I know what it does, and with the changing voltages it bounces. I would rather have a wideband so that I could use that to tune because there's no way I'm tuning my car based on the a/f gauge I have in it now. I'm going to the dyno for my tuning anyway.

[Mallard]

October 2004 Grassroots Motorsports has a great article reguarding narrow vs wide band A/F gages. The narrow bands are shit. Never accurate, not repeatable, and impossible to tune from.

[mp5jeff]

your friend must be a god tuner if all he uses is an egt gauge...that or he is lying.

[505zoom]

I will agree with the others that said boost, WBo2, and oil pressure would be a good way to go. A real coolant temp gauge (that actually moves between 190* and 215*), or a fuel pressure gauge are good choices also.

IMO, if you want the best setup for tuning (overkill maybe), go with boost, WBo2, fuel pressure, and a J&S safeguard. That will give you all the info you need to tune the car to it's fullest.

[505zoom]

your friend must be a god tuner if all he uses is an egt gauge...that or he is lying.

That's exactly what I was thinkin.