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Technical => Wiring & Sensors => Topic started by: Sprocket on October 13, 2014, 10:12:21 pm

Title: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: Sprocket on October 13, 2014, 10:12:21 pm
Waiting to pull the trigger on a pair of these. Any update on the expected arival of the firmware update for the LSU 4.9 sensors?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: MWfire on October 14, 2014, 08:43:04 am
I'm driving and testing lsu 4.9. So far works good, but a little bit of more time is needed to test it properly.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: gunni on October 14, 2014, 11:17:55 am
What did you have to do to make it work other then simply wire it in?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: MWfire on October 14, 2014, 02:06:57 pm
Change one resistor and add one resistor to 5v.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: gunni on October 16, 2014, 11:42:53 am
Can you elaborate further on that?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: MWfire on October 20, 2014, 08:50:12 am
Wait few weeks so i can finish my test.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: UrSobsessed on October 25, 2014, 11:56:53 pm
Nice!  I'm looking forward to this...
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 05, 2014, 05:49:17 pm
I'm killing LSU 4.2's every couple of months  >:(.... so I will also be looking forward to this as I have 2x LSU 4.9s standing by in stock.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: Kamuto on November 05, 2014, 11:35:02 pm
I'm killing LSU 4.2's every couple of months  >:(.... so I will also be looking forward to this as I have 2x LSU 4.9s standing by in stock.
never ever killed it :)
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 06, 2014, 08:06:58 am
I'm killing LSU 4.2's every couple of months  >:(.... so I will also be looking forward to this as I have 2x LSU 4.9s standing by in stock.
never ever killed it :)

I am a bit frustrated that they don't last longer.  They are quite dirty when I take them out, but saying that they are located a long way away from the turbos so it's at least not heat that is killing them.
I have them in the midsection of the exhaust system, and not in the downpipes, so they are basically in the OEM location.

Symptoms are that they start jumping around for a while, but then go down to Lambda 0.7x and jump around between 0.73 and 0.77.

Amy idea why they are going off so fast??
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: Kamuto on November 06, 2014, 09:23:21 am
they are somewhere under the engine near ground?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 06, 2014, 09:47:12 am
they are somewhere under the engine near ground?

No, its a BMW M3 with a Supersprint de-cat xpipe.  Sensors have a good angle away from the flow of exhaust gasses, located on top of the exhaust system.  No real reason why they should go off this quickly.. Unless its a settings error in the VEMS killing them

I would even say that they are a bit too far away from the engine.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: Kamuto on November 06, 2014, 09:49:53 am
they are somewhere under the engine near ground?

No, its a BMW M3 with a Supersprint de-cat xpipe.  Sensors have a good angle away from the flow of exhaust gasses, located on top of the exhaust system.  No real reason why they should go off this quickly.. Unless its a settings error in the VEMS killing them

I would even say that they are a bit too far away from the engine.
maybe settings or something.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 06, 2014, 10:17:21 am
they are somewhere under the engine near ground?

No, its a BMW M3 with a Supersprint de-cat xpipe.  Sensors have a good angle away from the flow of exhaust gasses, located on top of the exhaust system.  No real reason why they should go off this quickly.. Unless its a settings error in the VEMS killing them

I would even say that they are a bit too far away from the engine.
maybe settings or something.

they all seem to fail in the same manner.  Starts with fluctuations, then they drop down to LAMBDA 0.7xx levels and bounce around.
No messing about with settings.

Can these be cleaned so they work again?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: mattias on November 06, 2014, 07:52:34 pm
"They are quite dirty when I take them out"
Fix that problem, and your sensors will last..
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 07, 2014, 08:51:07 am
"They are quite dirty when I take them out"
Fix that problem, and your sensors will last..
So its running too rich you mean?
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: MWfire on November 07, 2014, 01:28:54 pm
On N/A cars lsu 4.2 last 50-70kkm. On turbo(low boost<2bar) without LC also long 30kkm.
On high boost, LC , wot ... 1-10kkm :), depending on lot of things.
Title: Re: LSU 4.9 Wideband Sensors
Post by: M3GTttHulk on November 07, 2014, 07:11:11 pm
On N/A cars lsu 4.2 last 50-70kkm. On turbo(low boost<2bar) without LC also long 30kkm.
On high boost, LC , wot ... 1-10kkm :), depending on lot of things.
Im probably in the high boost range...even if im only ár 1.5bar.