Originally Posted by brobards

Log the knock voltage on a pull with conservative ignition timing, this will give you an idea of the standard "noise" of the engine. Then I would use the standard noise as a baseline curve for your knock sensor cal table (setup->sensors->knock sensor->knock control), and turn your knock control on.
You can then begin to increase your timing and log the knock feedback, if you are experiencing any feedback this means that you are probably too aggresive for pump gas and should pull timing out at that point.

Originally Posted by steelcityevo8

another question ? the knock that i am getting only shows up after a shift to next gear and as boost starts to build, i get it around 12-16psi not always the same boost level but i had seen it as low as 12psi and as high as 16 psi. just in 1 spot i might get 3.5v my threshold is at 2.5v. but once boost gets past that point i get virtually zero knock all 2.5 and under. if i do a log of say 3rd gear starting at 2500 rpm wot pull all the way out i never get this knock voltage at all ! only happens after shift in a very small window and is then gone once spoolup is full