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Well,
Besides torturing people with questions on this forum, I was on that flatratetech.com forum a lot and read whole bunch of stuff from those ASE techs.
Looks like Vulcans had a recall on them (for certain years only), because Atlanta idiots forgot to plug in octane number in the computer and ECU defaults to 93 octane.
Well, I got that done and the ping was still there. I took it again and ther replaced MAF.
After that I did fresh double-plat. sparkplugs, they also checked the gaskes and etc. Nothing! It was still pinging under hard acceleration.
So just recently I went and got the coolant flushed (not just drained and filled). God damn Vulcan was still pinging (a bit less, but...). So I finaly decided to go the "snake oil" route and trust some marketing hype for Red Line's Water Wetter. Guess what, after one bottle (as per instructions) - $7 - ping is GONE!!! Only when temperatures outside are above 75 and I do hard acceleration a bit uphill, only than does it knock!
So, after 6 trips to the dealer, 1 flush, and $7 bottle of pinkish stuff ping is GONE!!!
Besides torturing people with questions on this forum, I was on that flatratetech.com forum a lot and read whole bunch of stuff from those ASE techs.
Looks like Vulcans had a recall on them (for certain years only), because Atlanta idiots forgot to plug in octane number in the computer and ECU defaults to 93 octane.
Well, I got that done and the ping was still there. I took it again and ther replaced MAF.
After that I did fresh double-plat. sparkplugs, they also checked the gaskes and etc. Nothing! It was still pinging under hard acceleration.
So just recently I went and got the coolant flushed (not just drained and filled). God damn Vulcan was still pinging (a bit less, but...). So I finaly decided to go the "snake oil" route and trust some marketing hype for Red Line's Water Wetter. Guess what, after one bottle (as per instructions) - $7 - ping is GONE!!! Only when temperatures outside are above 75 and I do hard acceleration a bit uphill, only than does it knock!
So, after 6 trips to the dealer, 1 flush, and $7 bottle of pinkish stuff ping is GONE!!!