Knock sensor?

[talltom]

Alright! The thinking around here is getting to damned conventional. The Ford 
guys don't weem to bring up th efact that Ford systems will not allow actual
readings of sensors, just a listing of whether or not readings are within 
parameters. Not!

   Gm seems like they might have something with their gen 5&6  ecu's, but
their great fancy web page has no ordering info, and the local dealer 
recommeds a dealer 100's of miles away for "speed equip."(I live five miles 
from the GM training center, in  a town with a half milion poplation.)

  So now to tick everybody off, what's the matter with using the Saab trionic
system? Supposedly it senses combustion chamber density and adjusts timing
on a per cylinder basis.

   If it's so hard for the people on this list to get dyno time why not design 
a system that tunes itself on the road as it's being driven? Even a dyno
can't duplicate driving conditions exactly and once a self adjusting ecm came
out dynos, and millions of different models of ecms would be unnecessary.
A few programable operating parameters and one size could fit all. Detroit
Deisel Engine control uses something like this currently. The Saab system
is largely software controlled and would seem a likely platform. 

  When you get it to work I want one that I can switch to 4,6, or 8 cyl,
and will work on turbo charged 500 caddy in a 1ton 4x4 54 Cornbinder!

  Any challengers for off the wall?