MOPED ARMY

I'm also not completely sold on mine being accurate, but it might be... However I've hit 430-440 many times in my testing and it is super clean in breakdowns. No blow-by, no scoring.

My experiences have been similar. But I also experience power loss when I get that hot so I'm probably running damn hot either way.

put it in the oven?

Does it read ~ambient temperature when your bike has rested all night? Put the sensor in boiling water.

mine was reading 800 when i was riding, called trail tech, they sent me a new sensor within one day, and now it reads perfect.

If its acting weird and resetting maybe your ignition is interfering with it? I had a digital temp gauge that wouldn't function if you got it within a few feet of the bike when it was running. (edited)

bump'd up, 3 of us are having issues with ours.

myself and big trouble maxed ours out. i'm running mine on a polini. i've been having airleak issues and soft seized a few weeks back, so i was kinda expecting to run a bit hot. has been running hot most of tonight's ride and finally maxed out half way throught. "fuck it," WOT the whole rest of the ride. plug looks great. the other was run on a hobbit DR, never seized. plug is good. last one is reading "- - -" the whole time.

$40 distraction. i need to stop staring at it constantly.

Can you test/compair it against another thermometer by putting the sensor and thermometer in a toaster oven or some boiling water and compairing temps? Ive never seen any trailtech product, but ive been thinking about getting one.

The sensor is right next the plug thing. If you take your plug out a bunch... you end up destroying the sensor. At least that is the explanation trail tech gave me.

If the internal battery is low.... its also pretty wonky

I've had the same sensor on 3 different bikes and smashed and resmashed dozens of times. The gauge, however, just went ERROR on me early this year and they sent me a replacement. It's been reliable and accurate, as far as I can tell, besides that. Which sucks because it means I'm actually hitting 430F+.. :(

It's been raining nonstop up here for the past (what feels like) five months, so I haven't had any time to test this with lower compression and higher octane, but I can verify that I did try out someone else's' temp gauge (one that they get a normal mid-200's reading from on their e50 Polini) and that also showed me at ~500 degrees. So, at this point I'm amazed that the Gila has been able to withstand those temperatures.

Timing, compression, lean jetting, squash, sharp pipe hit, back pressure, bad porting, oxygenated gas.

take your pick.