? for all the lt1 guys about loudness
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ss badges
Originally posted by LWillmann
In all seriousness here...
I have NEVER heard of the knock module having anything to do with how the exhaust sounds on the car.
The differences between the LT1 KM and the LT4 KM are basically that the LT4 does a better job of filtering out noises that were not knock but the LT1 knock module would see as knock causing the PCM to retard timing when it doesn't need to.
Perfect example of the noise that the LT4 KM was designed to deal with: Roller Rockers.. Headers can also cause your LT1 KM to pick up on knock and make the PCM retard timing.
As for the other, I am going to comment here, but I'm not meaning to clown on you so forgive me if I come off that way...
Most Camaro SS owners (owners of real SSes anyway) are very protective of the badging, as they should be (in my opinion). They take it to offense if someone puts the added stuff on the car and badges it as an SS because it did not start life as an SS.
Granted I understand why you wrote it the way you did in your sig, basically a Z28 with SS stuff added to it, and I don't think you're calling it an SS, but others might misinterpret what you type.
For example, I have a Firebird Formula, which is basically a Trans-Am without the badging. There are other slight differences, I'm not sure of all of them as I don't really care. But if I were to make the adjustments to the car, I wouldn't want to call my car a Formula/Trans-Am because it's not a Trans-Am, it's a Formula with some Trans-Am parts... I hope you understand what I mean here and don't take me to offense because I don't mean any.
As for your thermostat deal, it is a little confusing at first glance, you might want to say Thermostat: 180 Winter/160 Summer. That would make it obvious what you mean at first glance.
Hope my info about the knock module above helps...
In all seriousness here...
I have NEVER heard of the knock module having anything to do with how the exhaust sounds on the car.
The differences between the LT1 KM and the LT4 KM are basically that the LT4 does a better job of filtering out noises that were not knock but the LT1 knock module would see as knock causing the PCM to retard timing when it doesn't need to.
Perfect example of the noise that the LT4 KM was designed to deal with: Roller Rockers.. Headers can also cause your LT1 KM to pick up on knock and make the PCM retard timing.
As for the other, I am going to comment here, but I'm not meaning to clown on you so forgive me if I come off that way...
Most Camaro SS owners (owners of real SSes anyway) are very protective of the badging, as they should be (in my opinion). They take it to offense if someone puts the added stuff on the car and badges it as an SS because it did not start life as an SS.
Granted I understand why you wrote it the way you did in your sig, basically a Z28 with SS stuff added to it, and I don't think you're calling it an SS, but others might misinterpret what you type.
For example, I have a Firebird Formula, which is basically a Trans-Am without the badging. There are other slight differences, I'm not sure of all of them as I don't really care. But if I were to make the adjustments to the car, I wouldn't want to call my car a Formula/Trans-Am because it's not a Trans-Am, it's a Formula with some Trans-Am parts... I hope you understand what I mean here and don't take me to offense because I don't mean any.
As for your thermostat deal, it is a little confusing at first glance, you might want to say Thermostat: 180 Winter/160 Summer. That would make it obvious what you mean at first glance.
Hope my info about the knock module above helps...
MY car still says Z28 on the car not ss but it just looks like one and has a better sup kit
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Re: ss badges
Originally posted by Dmx4ever3
MY car still says Z28 on the car not ss but it just looks like one and has a better sup kit
MY car still says Z28 on the car not ss but it just looks like one and has a better sup kit
Last edited by chasmanz28; May 9, 2003 at 03:26 PM.
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My advice is probably different than most. I would say get rid of the LT4 knock module. I won't go into a lengthy discussion here as to why but if you go here http://www.cardomain.com/id/jamesz28 I posted some emails I saved from the LT1edit mailing list detailing why.
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