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Old 04-29-2016, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Schrauf342
I'm running the 91p/t right now in my 2013. I fill up with 93 octane. On part throttle cruise my truck sometimes pegs 7.99 and sometime goes full the other way with -4.99. Sometimes it stays low. (Around -2 to 2). Kinda all over the place. Not sure what causes the high spikes but I don't really worry about it. At WOT my knock is around 1.5 then degrades.
Thank you for the reply, mine is around the same too, it's weird how all over the place it is.
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No problem. I have noticed at the same time I can have high kr at part throttle and the truck not pull timing. With the same kr at a different time it will pull some timing. I think there are a lot of variables and different tables it looks at to determine whether or not to act on the kr. (ECT, iat2, and others). My stock tune does the same thing as I think 5 star leaves most of that alone. I have other tunes that the knock sensors have been "slowed" some and don't show as high of a value.
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I've noticed the same thing in regards to sometimes it pulls timing more then others when my KR is higher. Usually if I'm going up a hill, (truck under load) timing goes in the negatives, If I'm just cruising on the freeway and my KR goes up my timing wont go in the negatives, sometimes.
I've heard from a few people 5 Star turns up the sensitivity on the knock sensors, not sure if it's true or not, and that some tuners turn down the sensitivity.

I'll get a spike of +9 once in a great while, very rare though and only with light throttle but usually most I ever see is an occasional +6-+7
On hard acceleration or WOT It's almost always in the negatives, sometimes +1 to +2 though.



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