Knock, Knock.
That knocking you hear in a piston engine is caused by detonation. Also called spark knock, detonation results when the air/fuel mixture explodes everywhere at once prior to spark ignition. When the fuel air/mixture is compressed, its temperature increases even as residual heat from the previous...
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