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Originally Posted by buditjoenawan
It doesn't matter if it's phantom knock or real knock, since the ECU is applying self preservation tactics anyway. As a result, the car will feel like it's stuttering, hesitating, bucking. Regardless of real or not, the ECU "hears" more things happening and takes preemptive measures to mitigate the possibility.
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I can tell you that you definitely won't be feeling a 1 degree of timing knock correction, and that was over a very short RPM window before the ECU said, "Nope, I was probably wrong about that call" and put the timing back in.