In another project we had upgraded the Mitsubishi EVO 9 intercooler to a much larger core. Using the Cobb Accesport Tuner, we uploaded a Perrin map specifically built for us. Naturally to keep things in check we wanted to keep an eye on the afrs. We looked and read about AEM, Zeitronix, and the innovate widebands.

From what we could tell, the innovative had very little lag time, and allowed us to have piggy back data loggers on it. So after placing our order for the wideband, we gave our weak welding skills some more play time. We loaded our licoln electric 175 mig with some stainless, and hooked up a tank with tri mix gas.

The welding came out decent even though we used a mig around a small item. Once the downpipe had the wideband bung welded on, we began pondering were to put the brains of the innovate wideband system. On the passangers side, and towards the front of the tunnel, there is a rubber grommet. We pulled this out, and using a drill with hole cutter, we made the hole bigger.

This allowed us to put the brains and most of the wiring just behind the radio, neatly tucked away. The next things were to find a switched power source, and good grounds for the sytem.

On the drivers side, below the steering wheel, and near the door, is a fuse panel. In order not to hack things up, we bought a fused kit, that allows us to run a fuse to the original item, and another fuse to the wideband. Pretty much plug-and-play.

Another thing we wanted to do is to have the light dim with the rest of the lights. We ran a separate line to one of the wires for some lights. Fantastic, not only does the wideband come on, but now we can dim it too!

NOTE: Make sure to do the following: 1. Free air test before installing wideband into exhaust--pretty much let the wideband sensor hang will you perform the test. 2. Don't plug/unplug the innovate wideband while powered. 3. Let the wideband warm up--it blinks for a little until it warms up. Less than a minute