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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 01:23 PM
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Aeromotive, Inc.
Carbureted Float Bowl Sensor, P/N 16304


Winner of the prestigious, 2004 SEMA Award For Best New Product, Racing - Performance. Aeromotive's innovative, new Carbureted Float Bowl Sensor will lead us to a new frontier in carburetor tuning and data acquisition.


Patented design outputs 0-5 Volts relative to fuel mass in the carburetor float bowl, working in conjunction with existing data acquisition.
Allows the user to determine and record the amount of fuel inside the float bowl of a conventional, racing carburetor without interfering with the float or affecting the bowl volume.
The sensor is small and light, mounting externally with no drilling or tapping of the float bowl required.


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$351.02
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 02:05 PM
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What's wrong with that?
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 02:07 PM
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WTF the WTF?
What is the *&%^ in this thread.. Forgive my ignorance.
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 02:35 PM
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The price is the big stumbling block for me. It should not be 350+ bucks for what is effectively a pretty simple sensor.
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 02:43 PM
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by jcb999
The price is the big stumbling block for me. It should not be 350+ bucks for what is effectively a pretty simple sensor.
There's nothing simple about a non-contact sensor.

It's only useful for serious racers, hence the price. Average joe on the street won't be interested because nobody in the McDonald's parking lot will understand what it does.
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 04:46 PM
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...or what to do with the information.

Most McD's parking lots are fillled with EFI these days, so it's a double clueless on that one. However, since bling is the thing, wouldn't doubt that those with more money than sense would get one for bragging rights. . .
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 09:02 PM
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I agree that a sensor of this design is not one of the low cost ones. However, according to the car-craft (maybe thats the trouble) article, it was not marketed for racers only.

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Old Oct 21, 2006 | 08:06 PM
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drop the hammer and have a wheels up launch it would be nice to have that infor
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