[s-cars] S6 pinging woes - the continuation

Brett Dikeman brett.dikeman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 21:07:37 PDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Taka Mizutani<t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now you're nitpicking a very fine point because they're both basically the
> same thing, just of a greater magnitude.

Pre-ignition is a term which describes WHEN the burn happens.
Detonation describes HOW.  The difference is not "a very fine point".

Go read Wikipedia if you won't listen or believe me; I don't see the
point in explaining it a third time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_knocking

Thank you for reminding me why I stopped reading s-car-list mail a month+ ago.

-B


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