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Old Apr 1, 2010 | 12:16 PM
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Default What causes Pinging?
What causes it and what damage is it causing?
 
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Bad Air/Fuel Ratio and wrong fuel (low octane).
 
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Basically your cylinder head gets sort of burn marks and small holes on it.
 
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After long use like that your heads blow off!
 
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Caused by SONAR. The animal rights groups say it damages whales and dolphins.
 
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pinging,pre detonation is firing before it is supposed to, cheap gas, timing off, carbon build up are causes
 
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Originally Posted by DPete
pinging,pre detonation is firing before it is supposed to, cheap gas, timing off, carbon build up are causes
yep, and lower octane than what you should be using.
 
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pinging,pre detonation is firing before it is supposed to, cheap gas, timing off, carbon build up are causes

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yep, and lower octane than what you should be using.
I think he covered that with "Cheap gas"
 
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I think he covered that with "Cheap gas"
low octane x10 lol
 
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I get premium from the majors only so its not the cheap stuff. Really interested in teh damage it causes, I will try octane boodters in teh mean time to see if any impact.
 
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