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Originally Posted by Td-d
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.
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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.