AEM Failsafe or separate boost and AFR gauge?
AEM Failsafe or separate boost and AFR gauge?
I am trying to decide if I want to run the AEM failsafe for boost and AFR monitoring or if I should go for 2 separate gauges. I find the single gauge setup to be very appealing. Due to the complexity of the set up, I probably wouldnt be using the failsafe mechanism that it offers until a later date. Even still, at $250-$300 it is the same price as buying a decent boost and AFR gauge separately. So my question is, is there any downside to the failsafe? Any bad experiences using it from gauge only standpoint?
I was debating the same thing before I got mine and decided to go with the failsafe. Im not a big fan of the bunch of gauges thing so it works out. I've yet to try the failsafe feature only hooked up the afr and boost and seems great, and like the guy said above the display look awesome.
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Its a great piece of equipment. I run them on a lot of cars. The nice thing is you have both a wideband and boost gauge in one. It can also be integrated with certain ecus to dump boost if the afr's get too lean. I have one on a mazda rx-7 right now with an AEM ecu and have it set to open the wastegate if the afr's get leaner than 12.2 under boost.
I have one on my 8 and it is really nice. Because it is a 2 in 1 + data logger, there really are no down sides to it. The display is really nice, much better than the older versions.
Here is a review video I did on mine.
If you hookup your RPM to the gauge, you can also export the logs to VDR.
Here is a review video I did on mine.
If you hookup your RPM to the gauge, you can also export the logs to VDR.
