Just released: Innovate Motorsports XD-1 display
Driving a performance car is a lot like television commercials advocating parental involvement. "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?" Just as a parent should be involved in his or her child's life, we should be aware of our car's vital signs. Your car is most vulnerable to failure when you don't realize there's anything wrong. One of the most important details to monitor is your air/fuel ratio (AFR). If the mixture has too much fuel, it becomes rich, and the car will bog. If the mixture has too little fuel, it becomes lean, and your engine will knock, or worse, it will cause detonation. Then it's bye-bye motor.
A stock, narrow band oxygen sensor tries to keep the engine running as close to stoichometric (14.7:1) as possible. The wideband can measure a wider AFR range and is capable of giving you a precise ratio at any given rpm. This is especially important when tuning your high-performance application.
Innovate Motorsports has engineered a modular system of tuning devices that includes air/fuel, multichannel auxiliary data logging and a compact standalone wideband controller system. The company's new XD-1 A/F display and LC-1 lambda cable with Bosch LSU 4.2 wideband O2 sensor are a clean, easy-to-use Universal Exhaust Gas Oxygen (UEGO) sensor and controller in a compact package. We're all looking for flexibility and information when we purchase gauges. This system is all that and more.
The XD-1 display features 21 LEDs that act as a digital needle and a 3-digit display in the center of the gauge. It is designed to be an A/F meter that can be used with Innovate's LM-1 digital wideband AFR meter or the new LC-1 lambda cable. The XD-1 can interface with the LM-1 for data logging and has a remote button that can calibrate the oxygen sensor or initiate data logging. The XD-1 is only .75 inch thick, so it is very easy to mount whether you elect to employ a traditional gauge pod or just surface-mount the gauge to your dash. In addition, the XD-1 can be programmed to display vitals from other sensors and display the reading from those sensors. The display face can be changed for any of these other functions and daisy chained together with other XD-1 displays to give you a uniformed array of gauges.