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#67345 - 06/30/05 04:08 PM knock retard on my GT
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so I got my scan gauge today (i'll be writing more about it in the other thread after i get a good handle on it). first thing i did was warm up the car and take it for a spin.

i took it at WOT a few times from say 20-60mph or so. my knock retard is reading ~5.5. I don't know a ton about what's normal, cause i'm slightly new to the scanning thing. i read that you usually lose abour 2 hp per degree of KR...
its about 85 degrees outside with moderate humidity. air intake temps were sitting around 92.

my mods are: Intense PCM, wizaired CAI, 180* t-stat.
i've been running higher octane gas, but i have 87 in my tank now, so i could scan KR with it.

so i'm wondering if this is good, or bad, or normal. i know the intense messes with that stuff, and i'm tempted to swap my stock pcm back in and scan. maybe its just too frickin hot out.

by the way, the aeroforce scangauge is really cool! looks slick and seems to work nice. more about it later!

thanks,
Bill
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