That sounds bout right.. You don't want to mess with your nock sensor as this senses the onset of knocking and then the ECU pulls your ignition timing back to prevent it from getting worse.. It's only a matter of a second or two that the timing returns to normal.. This only happens under the harshest of conditions and mostly on boosted engines.. too much heat and boost combined will cause knocking.. an N/A motor rarely has this problem, but the knock sensor is a fail safe that saves your motor from destroying itself from over advancing the timing when the conditions are wrong for it.. I've been using a smartphone app to monitor my timing and it totally varies depending on throttle % and other things.. At idle it typically is 0-2 degrees advanced.. when you start to load it up and rev it up the timing shoots up to 22+ advanced. I have thought about 'slotting' the exhaust cam position sensor as that is primarily what the ECU bases it's spark timing.. That way I could pull timing back once I boost mine.. This would be tricking the computer to fire later which is proper for boosted appications, however now that i'm thinking about this deeper.. the fuel injector timing would be equally affected. would probably be fine under near to full WOT conditions but at idle I might inadvertently cause the injectors to fire fuel as the valves are closing. The fuel would inevitably be pulled in on the next opening of the valve but would that affect atomization maybe? It's one of those things where I'll just try it in baby steps and see what happens. If I feel improvement then i'll be encouraged to push it further, if it just runs worse then I'd return it to stock position. For the N/A applications, you'd wanna try slotting it advanced. Baby steps.. I have suspicions that the Protege Cam gears are interchangable with ours. I should hit up my friend who has his and see. If so, then we would be able to order the Ford Probe Fidanza Adjustable Cam Gears and use the on our FE3 Engines. This would allow us to mess with the cams in small increments and if we slotted the ex. cam sensor we could adjust it to match the offset of the cam so that the ignition timing remains the same. (=
