It's rather easy to look at what detonation can do, during an engine's autopsy, but what did the damage?.
Well, in reading Obert's *Internal Combustion Engine, and Air Pollution*, he mentions that during detonation, the pressure rise within a cylinder can be in the order of 9,800 PSI PER DEGREE of Crankshaft rotation.
Dunno about you, but, to me, it puts a real *face* on the issue. No wonder it can blow little flakes of AL off the dome of a piston, or destroy the rod bearing's oil film....
Well, in reading Obert's *Internal Combustion Engine, and Air Pollution*, he mentions that during detonation, the pressure rise within a cylinder can be in the order of 9,800 PSI PER DEGREE of Crankshaft rotation.
Dunno about you, but, to me, it puts a real *face* on the issue. No wonder it can blow little flakes of AL off the dome of a piston, or destroy the rod bearing's oil film....