Thread: relocating knock sensor

You can get to it from the bottom. I'm assuming it's on one of your B14's? You have to take out the huge black bracket from the bottom and use a wrench to get it off. Takes me about an hour because i've done like 10 of them.

mine had more rust than the titanic, and rounded off

Interesting. Even with a rusted out 215k mile p11 from VT i was able to do it.

we tend to salt our roads pretty good lol

ok so i relocated the knock sensor gave it a ground to the intake manifold and its still running like poop and throwing knock sensor code. i checked the wire from ecu (pin 54) and ks connector and i get .001 ohms which tells me the wire is not shorted or open. am i relocating it wrong?...i cant wait to put it where it belongs which should be next week since i dont need my car all week.

did you attach the ground to the bottom of the sensor. if not thats you problem. the point is to make the sensor think its still on the block. I usually ground them back to the stock location and wrap the sensor to insulate it from noise.

i tryed it all.. im getting .500 ohms

hmm very odd. Have you cleared out the codes to see if they come back?

I am running a JWT computer, and they take the knock sensor out of the programming. They told me it wouldn't make any difference whether it worked our not. I wonder if calum does the same thing?

But I have my knock sensor bolted to my intake manifold right now, just for experimenting. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether it is plugged in or not.

so how are you grounding the knock sensor