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Subject:Re: High Octane was: what's the best kind of gasoline?
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:31:43 +1200

>
>The key is to listen for pinging. If you can't hear your motor very
>well, try warming the motor up thoroughly, then take the motor cover
>off, and drive up a fat hill in 4th. Ping? Retard the advance slightly.
>No ping. No worries.

Be careful. Just because you can't HEAR pinging, it doesn't mean that
it itsn't happening (ie subaudibly).
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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