Anyone ever monitored actual engine cylinder temps??

[Guest]

I'm just curious as to whether anyone has ever rigged their GS850 up to monitor the actual cylinder temps?? If so, what are "safe" temps, and what would be considered too warm?

I'm thinking of picking up a digital thermometer or temp gauge or two and rigging them up on my bike to keep track of the temps. Maybe a probe on each side or ??

[Steve]

Several ways of doing this, which way were you considering?
1. Gasket ring around the spark plug
2. Infrared thermometer on the pipes or head (have to be stopped, of course)
3. Probes in the exhaust pipes.
probably a few more.

Do you plan on averaging them out, switching the four leads to one display or having individual readouts for each cylinder?

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[tkent02]

Take your glove off, reach down and grab the engine. GO "Ow,that's hot."
Put your glove back on. The best part of air cooling is that it rarely fails.

[Octain]

I have an infrared thermometer but I dont think it goes high enough when the bike is fully warmed up. It goes blank. I use it when I first crank one to make sure all pipes are around the same temp.
Other than that I dont care..

[JEEPRUSTY]

One of the guys on here has expertise in use of O2 sensors and other aspects of fuel metering.

Why do you need to measure your cylinder head temp?

[Darin Jordan]

Why do you need to measure your cylinder head temp?

Mostly because I'm a big DORK, and am used to monitoring a full compliment of gauges... Just like to know what is going on in there...

[tkent02]

Get an airplane, they have expensive gauges to monitor all kinds of silly stuff.

[JEEPRUSTY]

Mostly because I'm a big DORK, and am used to monitoring a full compliment of gauges... Just like to know what is going on in there...

An instrumentation enginneer?
Hmm well I do recall that airplanes use this tech and so.....http://www.aerocorsair.com/id62.htm

pretty straightforwaard.

[posplayr]

I'm just curious as to whether anyone has ever rigged their GS850 up to monitor the actual cylinder temps?? If so, what are "safe" temps, and what would be considered too warm?

I'm thinking of picking up a digital thermometer or temp gauge or two and rigging them up on my bike to keep track of the temps. Maybe a probe on each side or ??

here is a similar discussion. After recording header temps with my LM-2/LMA-3 I woudl say that at best differential temperature is to be used to find a problems, not so much to fine tune. Unless you plan of having different jetting on a per cylinder basis, one temp sensor is probably good enough.

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=161402&highlight=EGT