Manifold Glowing....This is New

[351wcoupe]

After driving the car hard pretty hard and spraying twice 19psi+70shot. I noticed the unported E6 was glowing really bright. The A/F (I know its not a WBO2 but...) was showing one bar in the green. I let it cool down completely. I drove it home easier and it was glowing slightly at the flange and the exhaust side of the turbo. Seems to run fine. What possibilities am I looking at? If it were the cat it would glow at the cat instead, right?

 

[mr_woodster]

i'd exspect it to glow if you were running it in a spirited fashion! n2o burn's quite hot due to its high oxygen content. Get it tunned, barrow a wbo2...or buy a bag of marshmellows and make some smores.

 

[Ray III]

"one bar in the green" is that supposed to mean rich?

Ideally you want engines to run a tiny bit lean

 

[ShaneD1980]

yeah on any car with a turbo if you run it hard the manifold will glow its pretty normal.

 

[Stinger]

Ideally you want engines to run a tiny bit lean

You may want to rethink that one

 

[351wcoupe]

I ran the windsor lean ALL the time. I've run this motor lean a time or two and it gets pissed off at me.

 

[351wcoupe]

It does it whether I spray it or not and it runs great so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[Bearded Forever]

Set you up teh b0mb!

 

[Willy0314]

Ideally you want engines to run a tiny bit lean

since when do you want a car with a power-adder to run lean? let alone a car with two power adders? Theres a grey area where your not lean or rich (which is where you want to be) and depending on how dangerous you want to live, you can creep towards the lean area, but running lean =

 

[Ray III]

You are just wasting fuel when you run rich. And I didn't say you want an engine to run LEAN, I mean it should be lean biased but close to stoichiometric air to fuel ratio.

You guys can go debate with Ford powertrain engineers on what a bad idea it is.

 

[saleenx029]

My 2.3 turbo motor ran fine and I would make the turbo glow almost everynight on my way home from work, all highway with only 3 gears, revs were always up but the glowing turbo didn't seem to bother it.

 

[Cougar]

You are just wasting fuel when you run rich. And I didn't say you want an engine to run LEAN, I mean it should be lean biased but close to stoichiometric air to fuel ratio.

You guys can go debate with Ford powertrain engineers on what a bad idea it is.

Running a car with a power adder, much less 2 power adders lean is a bad idea. I don't have to debate it with Ford engineers, because they designed the 2.3 Turbo's to run rich. If you don't believe me, open up a PE fuel table in PCMX.