High Knock in my Talon

[Kracka]

w00t!

[JET]

My car has always been noisy too, hopefully E85 will cure mine too! Did you get her tuned in some more? How much boost are you up to?

[dragonforce]

Maybe you have too much clearance in balance shaft or oil pump shaft bearings. or broken piston skirts.

kiichi.

[Halon]

Jet - I'm still running 20psi. I have played with it a little bit, but hasn't been tuned at all yet. Waiting until I get an intake fabed up before I throw it on the dyno. But it's still fairly untuned.

Dragon - This happened in my old motor, and in my new motor with 1700 miles on it. That leads me to believe it has nothing to do with the motor.

[CDeutsch]

Well after going crazy over this ever since the first day I bought me car, my knock issues now seem to be gone. After switching to E85, and using an intake that places the filter by the stock SMIC location, I have not been seeing tons of knock anymore. Yaay!!

I doubt the intake had much to do with it. E85 solved all my knock problems as well. (this is starting to sounds like an infomercial). ;)

[niterydr]

Hmm sounds like octane limitations that E-85 is fixing...

[JET]

It could be hot spots that the cooler running E-85 is curing too.

[Halon]

I doubt the intake had much to do with it. E85 solved all my knock problems as well. (this is starting to sounds like an infomercial). ;)
I bring up the intake because there was a thread on the link forums about placing the filter in the smic location. They were receiving significantly less
knock after moving the filter there. I did it at the same time as I switched to e85, so I can't say 100% or not if it helped. But those 2 things are what I did and I ripped her around the neighborhood a good bit and didn't have any knock.

[Halon]

It could be hot spots that the cooler running E-85 is curing too.

If it was hot spots, wouldn't the new head and new block have fixed that?

[scheides]

Nice dude! Just whatever you do, do NOT turn up the boost anymore or you will leave me in your rear-view mirror!!! :D