just off the cuff
So I don't really have an answer but an educated guess on part of your question.
I had never really heard about wideband sensors untill recently (past year or two). The only reason I could imagine the technology would be needed is for some outside industrial use or.......these new duel fuel vehicles....particularly E85...but only a guess.
I've been over hearing my coworkers talk about E85, and I think the Stauchiometric (sp?) value for E85 is 8.9:1....but I could be wrong. Since the vehicle would have to read a wider variety of ratio, I could guess that is where wideband technology came from. So to answer your question with an educated guess....I'll bet you can't tell the difference, you probably don't have one, and probably a few new models would have them. And they would only really be worth it if you're running say....racing gas in your street car, duel fuel applications, plus your computer in your car would need the range to read the sensor output. I doubt most factory ecu's are setup to read anything outside the range of a typical O2 Sensor.
So I don't really have an answer but an educated guess on part of your question.
I had never really heard about wideband sensors untill recently (past year or two). The only reason I could imagine the technology would be needed is for some outside industrial use or.......these new duel fuel vehicles....particularly E85...but only a guess.
I've been over hearing my coworkers talk about E85, and I think the Stauchiometric (sp?) value for E85 is 8.9:1....but I could be wrong. Since the vehicle would have to read a wider variety of ratio, I could guess that is where wideband technology came from. So to answer your question with an educated guess....I'll bet you can't tell the difference, you probably don't have one, and probably a few new models would have them. And they would only really be worth it if you're running say....racing gas in your street car, duel fuel applications, plus your computer in your car would need the range to read the sensor output. I doubt most factory ecu's are setup to read anything outside the range of a typical O2 Sensor.
