Marc Wiese wrote:

I agree Marc but at least it will tell you you have a broken apex seal

:) >That is probably most true in a 2 mm apex seal set but I plan on
replacing >my 2 mm apex seals with 3 mm seals.

Digital signal processing to detect knock is tough. Perhaps Russell

Kent >would like to undertake this project.
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I don't know much about electronics, but how about cannibalizing the
knock circuit in the 13Brew ecu to see how it does it and the components
involved, more or less reverse engineer it to suit our purposes? Also
the J&S aftermarket knock sensor could be utilized as a model since they
are used a lot in the racing rx7 crowd?
Both have an output command to minutely retard the ignition timing to
eliminate the incipient knock, without much reducing the power which of
course we may not want to do!
I do not think Tracy's ecu has an input for this kind of signal, but
several of the racing fi/ign computers do.
Marc Wiese

That is real tough to do. There are probably thousands of lines of
code in your average car ecu.

Paul Lamar
 
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