just wondering where everyone mounted the o2 sensor and how did you run the wires

 

Driver side tend to be leaner so use that for your wideband.

 

i thought you had 2 mount it on a straight pipe so you get a correct reading

 

I have one on each pipe at the top of the HFC. The stock sensor is about 2 inches further down the pipe. Wires are routed through the monster rubber grommet on the passenger side of the firewall.

 

i mounted mine on the passenger closer to the engine as possible, and run the wire through rubber grommet on the passenger side bay

 

does it read correctly?

 

yes it read correctly

 

Does anyone know anything about the innovative wideband?

It has two outputs, one is wideband and it also has a narrow band (simulated) output. Can you replace the stock O2 sensor with the innovative one and just use the narrow band part to feed to the stock ecu?

 

Yep, I did that. I routed the second sensor output to the stock O2 narrowband input in the ECU. Then the car was complaining that it couldn't find the heater for the O2 sensor 1 bank 2... So I cross connected the heater from bank one to the input on bank 2. Everything is beautiful now.

 

you can also run the wires through the gromet by the steering column, this way you don't have to worry about the grommet on the passenger side leaking water onto the ecu.

 

Thanks for the reply. Could you explain a little more about how it is wired? the heater wires, etc? How does that work?

 

The heated O2 sensor has 4 wires. 2 are for the heater and 2 for the narrow band 02 sensor. Of the 2 groups, only one wire is a "detectable" line, so only those 2 wires go to the ECU. When you plug in your new Wideband O2 sensor, one of the signal wires (the 5V line) goes to your A/F gauge, the other wire (1 V narrow band) goes to replace the signal from the stock O2 sensor you are removing. So, now you've unplugged your stock O2 sensor and there is no longer a heater signal going to the ECU for that O2 sensor. The ECU will complain about that. So, the stock O2 sensor on the other side of the car, can be spliced to send the heater signal to the ECU for the other side. I spliced at the ECU, but you could splice from the sensor plug if you wanted to. I don't have the ECU wiring for the 06, but this is what the 03 looks like...

I hope that helps...

 

i didnt know there was a gromet by the steering column. imma have to check that out. thanks

 

Its hard to get a wire through from the engine bay, I poked one of those snake tools from autozone through, its got a button on one end, and when you push it down, this little claw comes out of the fexible tube, I grabbed the wire in the engine bay with that and pulled it through, then hooked into the power that comes from the cigarette lighter