bling5tatus
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As usual the dsmtuner's geniuses come out of the woodwork. Here's to not listening to what you're saying. :cheers:
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@biglady112 Thoughts?Actually the mitsubishi knock system is very good, it's very responsive and fairly conservative. I used to run a 1g with a 14b at 20 psi with a sidemount and regularly saw max knock counts, bought it with 100k sold it with 135k still running strong. This 2g has a 6 bolt block I got out of the junkyard, stock pistons stock rods, honed re-ringed and new bearings. Put 30k on it with the big 16g seeing 5+ degrees in 4th/5th regularly. Pistons looked brand new (except for carbon).
And no you're wrong about the way a knock sensor detects knock. The only thing that will affect the way it "hears" knock is if you change the characteristics of the block itself, IE going with an aftermarket block. Going with solid cams or pistons with larger clearances CAN affect knock, but it will not mask knock it's the opposite, they generate noise which can be in the frequency range of the filters in the knock system and you will get false knock.
But you won't listen to any of this, keep tuning the way you tune and I'll tune the way I tune, motor was built at 150k, car has 185k with 91 octane in it 99% of the time.
49178-01420 is a standard Big 16G, not an Evo III.
Still a good turbo, but these tend to top out around 38 lb/min so 34/35 is acceptable to be honest.
As requested here's my max octane map, my min is like 3-4 degrees less
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