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Old 03-22-2008, 09:32 PM
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Default Temping a motor!!!
Took the ole thermal imager to the track today. In pit row I asked a gentleman if I could take an image of his buggy, he agreed and I did. The buggy was on pit row for almost 45 seconds before I took the image. I took the image and suggested to him he was running a bit lean and towards the 300 °F mark on the OUTSIDE of the head button. He disagreed and showed me his temp reading that only showed 220 °F "On the glow plug", my image of glow plug shows 295.1 °F.

I did not stick around to see the results. Please remember temp guns can be way off!
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