Silly question but...

[rundatrack]

What does detonation sound like......?

[BKCowGod3]

kinda like a gun going off... backfiring

[Tjn182]

Hahaha -- You'll know when it happens

[BKCowGod3]

I detonated a dime size hole in the piston of my Alfa... Sounds kinda like FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKSHITSHITSHIT.

Funny thing was, I wasn't anywhere near redline, 5mph UNDER the speed limit, etc. It wasn't the sound so much as the cabin filling with smoke and oil streaming up the windshield that told me something was VERY wrong.

[russc]

Take a baby rattle, wrap your hands around it, and shake. Its soulds alot like that.

RussC

[Jeremy]

Like you've got marbles bouncing around in the combustion chamber.

Jeremy

[gol10dr1]

jeremy said it best.........marbles......... maybe a smal firecracker too!

[Brad D.]

Kinda sounds like BBs in a coffee can, but the above descriptions are also very good. Once you do hear it though, you'll probably recognise it.

[Hunter has a Bimmer3]

Never driven a turbo car, never detonation from one. I bet is sounds like BOOM!


[Edit by Hunter has a Bimmer on [TIME]1123737226[/TIME]]

[Shawn D.]

The "marbles bouncing around in the combustion chamber" sound is indeed one of the sounds of pinging/detonation, but at low RPM and high throttle settings it can also sound like a brick bouncing off the insides of a wood box.