A DETAILED overview of KNOCK and PRE-IGNITION - BOOST SCHOOL #7
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Today we're talking about the number 1 killer of boosted engines. Knock. We are going to understand what it is, how ti differs from pre-ignition, how it correlates with other things in your engine and of course how to avoid it and how to control it.
So what is knock? The simplest explanation of knock is that it's abnormal combustion, but to truly understand it we must dive deeper than that and to understand what is knock we must have a good understanding of what's actually happening inside the engine.
So let's imagine our cylinder is on the compression stroke. Both the intake and exhaust valves are closed and the piston is traveling upward and compressing the air fuel mixture inside the cylinder. Now the spark plug will actually fire before the cylinder reaches it's top most position of travel or top dead center. The spark plug must fire before the piston reaches TOP DEAD CENTER because the goal is to ensure that maximum combustion pressure builds up by the time the piston starts traveling downward. So how do we ensure that maximum pressure builds up when the piston is right past TDC? By firing the spark plug before the piston reaches top dead center. This is called ignition advance. Firing the spark plug earlier accounts for the piston speed and gives enough time to the combustion to build maximum pressure right on time.
So in the beggining of the video we said that knock is abnormal combustion. Now normal combustion inside a gasoline or petrol engine occurs like this: air and fuel is compressed inside the cylinder. The spark plug fires and initiates the combustion. Combustion spreads out evenly from the spark plug until all or most of the air and fuel is burned off.
Knock occurs like this: Air and fuel is compressed inside the cylinder. Spark plug fires and initiates the combustion. Now as the combustion spreads it exerts pressure onto the still uncombusted air and fuel. At this point one or more pockets of uncombusted air and fuel spontaneously ignites before it's reached by the flame front traveling from the spark plug.
Now knocking is also called detonation. Detonation is a combustion process characterized by a super-sonic flame front. Meaning that it travels faster than the speed of sound which is 343 meters per second. Detonation creates destructive shock-waves that have the potential to damage everything around them. When a pocket of air and fuel self-ignites it actually detonates and it's these shock waves the cause a brief but intense spike in cylinder pressures and create the characteristic knocking sound. If knocking is strong enough or persists long enough it will damage or destroy engine components.
In contrast to this normal combustion is not detonation. Normal combustion is something called deflagration. Deflagration is characterized by a sub-sonic flame front meaning that it travels below the speed of sound. Deflagration increases pressures inside the cylinder in a gradual and controllable manner without unpredictable pressure spikes.
Ok so that's knock. What's pre-ignition? Knock and pre-ignition differ from each other in their timing. As we have seen knock occurs AFTER the spark plug fires, but pre-ignition occurs BEFORE the spark plugs fires. Pre-ignition happens while the piston is still moving upward on the compression stroke. The air fuel-mixture ignites spontaneously before the spark plug fires. In most cases pre-ignition can be more destructive because it happens on the compression stroke.
So why do knock and preignition occur? The simplest and most common answer is because temperatures inside the cylinder get too high. Why is that a problem? It's problem inside a gasoline engine because a gasoline engine compresses both air and fuel. If temperatures gets high enough it can lead to spontaneous ignition of the air fuel mix and we get detonation. The actual ignition source for pre-ignition is in many cases some sort of a hot spot which can form at a carbon deposit, spark plug tip or a sharp and protruding edge in the combustion chamber. The overly high temperatures can heat the hot spot until it glows red hot and this can lead to pre-ignition or knock.
Back in the day the safeguard against knock was to run a low compression ratio and leave a big safety margin. The reason behind this is that there wasn't any active knock control. If knock occurred the engine had no way of responding to it. But today things are very different.
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Did you say "deflagration" ?
Or... "defecation" ?💩
*Knock knock*
"I'm not playing this game." *piston has left the engine.*
Piston Ring: *"Adios"*
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I think your confusing it with big end bearing knock, which is more what pre ignition can cause.
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Preignition, basically a situation where your piston is trying to compress an explosion.
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@@sillysad3198 I think your cylinders are suffering from abnormal combustion.
Clean them
You have an F=ma from the piston and con-rod and a F=pa coming from the pre-ignition. Something in the middle has to give, the piston and/or the con-rod.
@@Alex-di8ti "F=ma"
When approaching TDC the piston slows down, so the acceleration is negative. The forces you mentioned do not oppose each other.
@@bakters My question is, how can pre ignition cause such damage as bent/snapped con rods. There must be substantial forces to achieve this. If pre ignition can occur anytime in compression stroke, I am thinking is it more the pressure from the shockwave that does the damage.
If piston is decellerating it still has an F=ma but yes negative, If the force is far greater from the pre ignition, than your suddenly applying greater loads to the components. My thinking is probably wrong in my previous comment, it would be easier to understand with some force recordings.
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Knock knock,
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"So Who's there?"
Toe
"Toe who?"
Toe truck.
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Another way of controlling engine knock many years ago in the days of carburetors was for the driver of the car to back off the gas pedal when the driver heard engine pinging and knocking. Less air and fuel would stop the pinging and knocking. Also engine pinging and knocking tended to occur with a wide open throttle and low engine rpm. In those cases shifting to a lower gear to increase engine rpm reduced pinging and knocking.
Less fuel/air means a pressure drop across the throttle body, lowering intake air temps.
Higher RPM means the fuel/air mix is not as long in contact with the hot cylinder walls, making it cooler when the spark fires.
Its even more interesting on even older glow chamber/tube engines, early 20th century, big, slow running, single cyclinder engines.
I remember my old neighbour showing of his skills with a 1930s tractor, got the glow bulb way hot (this advances timing) after hauling firewood up a mountain, then, to reverse he slowed down the engine, got it to stop mid compression stroke, pre-ignition occured from the overheated bulb and reversed the engines rotation.
I got to drive one once, its a odd experience, you need to keep the bulb in the right temp range using a small burner below the bulb at low load and idle and water injection on the intake while its doing heavy work.
I have allways wanted to know what knock is and now I know thanks to my teacher at D4A .i recomend this sunday school it makes the day perfect.
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@@pouyeux55 in my supercharged saturn i never get to hear knock knock jokes. Hsrd when the STI is so far behind and blowing a head gasket
Knock knock
Thank god ive been trying to explain knock to my brother for like the past 2 weeks
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I was thinking the same thing!
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Very informative. I knew the basics but the details are fascinating.
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I love your videos. I have seen several other videos of people trying to explain what knock is, why it's bad, and how the ECU manages it, but never quite understood them. This explanation is really, really good and finally made me understand! Thank you so much!
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One of your BEST, most accurate videos to date!. Excellent contrast between knock and pre-ignition.
DAGNABIT! STOP! No, no, NO! It's NOT called KNOCK. YOU are describing PINGING as KNOCK. KNOCK is from worn out con-rod piston pin bushings. GeezusHKrist! Foreigners. Why can't they keep WORDS STRAIGHT. What is wrong with you people? IT IS CALLED PINGING PINGING PINGING PING PING PING PING PING! NOT KNOCK!
Thanks for this very clear explanation. I had an idea about knock but now I understand it much better thanks to your course. You really have talent to simply explain complex things.
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That was an amazing video, always wanted to know what nock and pre ignition was. The video about ignition timing and knock, plus the visuals of internal combustion is amazing.
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You'll be used to pistons with lumps missing then!
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I'm really amazed about the explanation in this video. Great work. Good balance between causes of knock, how to avoid it and how the knock sensor works. Greetings from Venezuela, thanks for this valuable information.
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Thank you for this video! I am an engine head never really understood timing, knock, and preignition. I’m going to watch this video over again. I have V8 and turbo I-4 cars.
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superb video. glad to know there's loads of steps to mitigate knock.
Thanks for the good overview of knock for beginners. Looking forward to the next video where you discuss the details.
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Knock beautifully explained like no other video here , all the best
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What a great video! Thank you for the in depth explanation.
Simply fantastic....I'm learning so much...thanks a lot brother...respect from Bangladesh
Simply awesome explanation
Very educative analysis on knocking.
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Very important and I bet lot of mechanic don't know exactly what's knock including me. Thanks a lot bro 😊
Beautiful explanation! Thanks!!
Best explanation of knock I've seen to date..
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Positively brilliant simplification and explanation of knock and preignition! SUBSCRIBED!
Knock and preignition are absolutely the number one killer of modified boosted engines, that are running more than stock boost. Stop blaming your engine oil and start checking the center electrode insulator porcelain for any tiny flecks of aluminum, those are the first evidence that knock has occurred or is occurring. Then either run higher octane, less timing advance or less boost. Localized over heating in cylinders is also a thing but those are the BIG things.
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Thank you for the clear explanation and visual aids.
beautiful lecture brother !
I just enjoy watching your videos it's easy for me to understand what Is going on in a combustion chamber . So if I'm right editing a aem injection kit will help keep the cylinder temperature down but will Interfere with the AFR su you will need to tune your ECU to edit more feul .I'm no export just watching and learning .thanks in advance
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Awesome explanation. Thanks!
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Thanks for all your subjects that can be very educational for those that are still learning. I say this after 58 years in the trade. Thanks again
Wow, this video is operating at the TDC of the information and knowledge on engine combustion and at the edge of the knock not to create information overload! Amazing!
Another great video!!
Very well explained.
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I work as an engine technician and test on fuels to find out the octane number of said fuels. you sir did a very good job on this video
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Excellent explanation!
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Nice video. In the future you might mention that knock breaks down the thermal boundary layer and melts/reduces the strength of the piston. Another sign of knock is spark plug ground strap erosion. Also for comments about the oil you want to use SP oil with turbocharged engine or whatever level the manual calls out. Oil is a source of pre ignition and the newer oils have a higher auto ignition temp helping to prevent PI.
Man oh man this man is smart..... I know my thing but this man breaks it wayyyyy down.... Thank you...
Do a video about knock in old diesel engines....
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That has never happened to me before
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Great explanation. Best I've heard yet. The only detail that wasn't explained was that compressing of the end gases creates radicals that are not regular old gasoline anymore when knock occurs. It's not a normal air fuel mixture that autoignites. It has been changed by heat and pressure into something that detonates at the local speed of sound.
ECU can also cut boost or reduce boost to manage knock. Hopefully you can cover the logic regarding that safe guard in a future video :D
Great work as always!
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