Monitoring a Mustang and Blower
Lorenzo Ortiz Burgos’s 2024 Mustang Darkhorse is a pretty fierce car, especially since he has a supercharger installed. In his search for gauges that will allow him to display boost, he ran across two things that helped him change how he “sees” his car. “I bought the iDash DataMonster because of what I saw a fella’s YouTube channel. The difference is that he’s using a Banks 4 Channel Analog Sensor Module and some other sensors, but that’s the only difference.”
“I installed a Whipple supercharger, but I had no way to read boost on the dash. The only way to do it is to get a certain scanner and activate something so that boost can be displayed on the dash, but I don’t know how to do that. I didn’t want to run a line from the blower into the car and have a mechanical gauge there. It just wouldn’t look right, and besides, I know the car can read it with what it already has built-in. But in the video that I saw, Dan was reading boost on his iDash! Ford reads the MAP sensor so that it knows what the boost is going into the engine. I mean, Ford probably put that ability in because they knew eventually, people were going to supercharge their engines. So, I bought an iDash DataMonster, and now I’m reading boost and timing because those are the two readings that I really want to see as I’m running down the track.”
“One of the things I like best about the DataMonster is its data logging feature. I do index racing and have the car set up for track and drags. I love to datatlog and do it for all of my track runs. I just take the SD card out, pop it into my computer and load the log into the Banks site to see everything that I recorded. And the iDash is so adaptable. That air/fuel ratio wasn’t working right. I went into the settings, all I needed to do was to change it from reading air-to-fuel to fuel-to-air because that’s how Ford reads it. I did that, and it worked awesome! I’m looking forward to expanding what I can see with a sensor module. Man, there’s so much I could do with this thing!”