Technical Does an Abarth have a knock sensor?

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Technical Does an Abarth have a knock sensor?

scrod

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Hi to all just had a good read on the optimax thread looks like it cleans your engine if you dont have a knock sensor and improves it a little if you do have one.
So any one know what stilos have a knock sensor ?
i have 02 abarth dose it have one ?
if it dose i might try optimax for myself to see if there is any improvement :confused:
 
see thread on the optimax debate some chap explains how it works on there not sure me self :confused:
 
paulmacs said:
what is a knock sensor?

Knocking is what you get if the ignition is too far advanced - it sounds like a kind of tinkling sound - its actually produced by pre-ignition of the fuel. What a knock sensor does is detects the onset of knocking, and the ECU can then alter the ignition timing to to stop the knocking and hence prevent damage to the engine. What this means is you can keep the ignition timing set optimally for performance, without damaging the engine.

Paul
 
Ok guys and girls now i know what one is and what it dose but still dont know if my car has one?
stilo abarth 2002 also what about the other stilos some one must know !!! :)
 
I had a volvo 240 which 'pinked' like mad,after months of messing about I eventually traced it to the petrol station I was using(privately owned discount place :rolleyes: )ran the tank dry the filled up elsewhere & instantly it stopped!
 
Yes you have two knock sensors I believe, both at the back of the engine. Take the black plastic rubbish off the top of your engine and you will see a blue plug and a white plug on the left hand side on a mounting. One is for the crank position(phase) sensor, and the other is the top knock sensor. The other knock sensor is located lower down on the block, but you should be able to see it peering down the back of the engine with the black plastic binliner rubbish off. They are round and black with a bolt through the centre of them.

Whether your engine can utilise Optimax depends on whether the ECU can advance the ignition enough to cater for it. I don't know whether a Stilo ECU can or can't but you could figure it out very easily by plugging in an OBDII display and reading the advance whilst booting it in a given gear at given revs, then filling it with Optimax and doing the same. The only way to know whether you are definitively getting a performance gain is to do that, or put it on the rollers and find out.
 
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