Posted: Aug 10, 2005 3:53 PM
What does detonation sound like......?
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Posted: Aug 10, 2005 3:56 PM
kinda like a gun going off... backfiring
Posted: Aug 10, 2005 4:04 PM
Hahaha -- You'll know when it happens 
Posted: Aug 10, 2005 4:09 PM
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.
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.
Posted: Aug 10, 2005 6:25 PM
Take a baby rattle, wrap your hands around it, and shake. Its soulds alot like that.
RussC
RussC
Posted: Aug 10, 2005 8:29 PM
Like you've got marbles bouncing around in the combustion chamber.
Jeremy
Jeremy
Posted: Aug 11, 2005 12:22 AM
jeremy said it best.........marbles......... maybe a smal firecracker too!
Posted: Aug 11, 2005 12:32 AM
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.
Posted: Aug 11, 2005 1:13 AM
Never driven a turbo car, never detonation from one. I bet is sounds like BOOM!
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Posted: Aug 11, 2005 7:46 AM
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.