Quote Originally Posted by EG5[KRT] View Post
you are probably better off running 98 or 100 octane.. but if it does ping the car should retard the timing slightly anyway till it doesnt.. the joy of having knock sensors and good ecu
also ok-ish but you should not depend on the knock sensor as it is an electrical device that retards WHEN it detects ping... what a tuner/builder should achieve is the prevention.

same as a rev limiter... it is electrical based when you reach a certain rev... but what happens if you redlined 5th and shift to 1st/2nd... revs will exceed beyond the electrical disabler being the rev limiter and blow your engine anyway as the revs had no way to climb to that threshhold, but rather start somewhere where it already exceeded the point of the limiter