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Originally Posted by lagos
We also shouldn't be running more then stock boost, and should be using race gas all the time. 
In the real world, knock sensors save your ass. |
Ok, no offense man but have you ever tuned a car? Do you know what goes into tuning a car?
There is ZERO reason with a good EMS that you can't tune for a good powerful car that runs with some cusion beneath the detonation threshhold. There is just no need for the innaccuracy of a knock sensor. Being as they work by sound waves the sensor can just as easily disregard knock as it can mistake another sound for it. I don't know about you, but I don't trust a sensor that reacts the same to ping as it would to hitting my block with a hammer. The idea is great, the method is flawed.
If you have to rely on the knock sensor for your engine's safety than you need to rethink what you're doing. Simply put, how does the knock sensor work? It detects knock, and THEN pulls timing. That's like putting on a kevlar vest after you get shot, lol.