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Na, doesn't damage it too much (it will do damage if you just leaving it sitting on the limiter for ages). It happens because the rev limiter works by cutting fuel, which causes the afr's to momentarily lean out. The PFC reading only measures the maximum knock, average knock would be a much more useful reading here.

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average knock is 10- 15, never goes above that no matter how hard i drive, this is the 1st time its been this high and i didn't sit on the limiter, only hit it and engine light flashed, got me all paranoid. but when i revvied to just before rev limiter a few times after knock was 10 - 15 the whole way to 7000rpm, i set rev limiter at 7200, so its never revved too hard. thing is i've hit rev limiter before and its never got that much knock before, thats why i got worried

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Even if the car did have a big detionation, its still running fine so i wouldn't be worried about it.

I had knock of 152 once... i think i got a stone in the engine bay hahahah

You only need to worry if knock is going above 40+ like everytime you drive, then you'd need the tune looked at, under 15 is very safe, tuned fairly softly :wave:

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