Here we have another not so common 52mm gauge solution for our customers, the Powertech Performance 52mm IAT gauge is used when people want to know their intake air temperatures on a turbo or supercharged vehicle. These is a couple of names for these gauges, one is IAT which stands for intake air temperature, and other which has popped up over the last couple of years is intercooler air temp, both are valid and now you know what someone is talking about if using either of these two names to refer to these gauges.
As most people with a turbo vehicle know, be it petrol or diesel, the temperatures of the air leaving the intercooler are important to know from a tuning perspective. In petrol vehicles, as the air temps increase coming out of the intercooler heading towards the intake manifold, the higher they get the richer the car will run, and the lower they are the leaner they will run. Along with that there is a point where if they get too hot detonation can become a concern as well. This is why aftermarket ECU’s almost always use an IAT sensor connected to them, as the ECU’s will be programmed as part of the tuning process to compensate for the varying range of different intake air temperatures you can see in various driving conditions. The ECU will make adjustments to the fuel map depending on what air temps the IAT sensor is reporting back, so it can be important to know what your intercooler air temps are for a number of reasons.
These 52mm intercooler air temp gauges can be a handy way for people to keep an eye on the air temps coming out of their intercooler after the turbo, it’s not as common outside of people with aftermarket ECU’s to know about these gauges, but they are actually important and it’s one of the reasons we decided to produce these models, for those that would like to know the temps coming out of their intercoolers to monitor intake air temps and make sure their intercoolers are working as they should.
People running water to air intercoolers should always run one of these IAT gauges in our opinion, as being there is an electric water pump involved with their intercooler systems, these gauges can help pickup on issues with those systems which can happen from time to time. Such as the pump not priming correctly, air pockets in the system, you will be able to see from a sharp rise in your intercooler air temps that there is an issue with the system and know to address it. There really many reasons why these little IAT gauges can be very handy to have.
Below you can find a bunch more information on our JRP Edge 52mm digital IAT gauges, a main features breakdown, what is included in the box and for those that really like to know the product they are buying we have a decent detailed features breakdown section where we go over in detail some of the main points that make the Powertech Performance range of gauges such an amazing little package. If after reading the below you have any questions, feel free to give the team here a call, email or shoot us a message on Facebook and we will be only too happy to help.
