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Old 12-02-2013, 04:00 PM   #6444
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Originally Posted by Td-d View Post
And I think people forget that we drive non-luxury vehicles (I hate the term econo-box) where costs and functionality are always a trade-off. Knock sensors are far from infallible - that's why any tuner worth his salt will use Det cans and not just rely on the ECU knock parameters. There is a complex set of logic around noise filtering that make the knock sensor work to the best of its ability - but always keep in mind that once you tune a vehicle, you are stepping outside of the margins of safety that the OEM put in place, and potentially the specifications of any piece of hardware on the vehicle.
as someone who is currently in the process of learning (often the hard way) how to tune a car from scratch, i can assure you truer words have never been spoken. that's a+ advice. i wasted a whoooooole lot of time before i discovered how to make electronic det cans from wal mart parts lol.
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