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Originally Posted by Mellon
horsepower is horsepower...if you're making 500awhp with 20psi and 30* of timing it's no safer on the internals than 500awhp with 30psi and 15* of timing if both pushing the limits of the octane.
If your tuner is quelling knock with fuel, they don't know what they are doing, that's a different issue.
btw, these figures are just an example, not real.
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True that, but what I was getting at is that some people (obviously not you
) just ramp up the boost/fuel without taking the time to REALLY work on it. The good tuners are the ones that produce MAXIMUM hp per pressure range assuming there is no knock present.
Which reminds me of a question I have for you. I made some logs of a friends evo and noticed that he has about 10-14 counts of knock in various rpm ranges. I always assumed that safe=0 counts of knock everywhere. This evo has already been tuned by someone previously. What kind of knock is "acceptable" or should I just keep assuming that anything over 0 knock is bad?
Subaru's have a slightly different way of showing knock/detonation. They only show how much degrees the car is pulling/advancing due to knock or lack thereof. Didn't actually read "counts of knock" till the most recent romraider update.