first i want to say hopefully this thread will help someone else who is in my situation. next, i haven't replaced a clutch or starter, my knock sensor itself seems fine after performing the DTC assessment on it. i reset the ecm and did all that, the code wasn't detected, so now i have to check the sensors and wires for continuity, which brings me to my question..

what the hell am i looking for? my ecm is exposed and i see the three Ps plugged in (the last one is empty, so I'm guessing thats normal). everything there looks fine and i don't see any breaks in wiring or anything. i was wondering if there was a specific one i should be looking at more? I'm gonna test the plug to the knock sensor once the damn temperature outside goes down a bit. I've spent the last week almost with this problem searching here and other places. the car runs and drives fine, idle was a bit rough buts its smooth as can be now. cleaned the map and IAC with no luck and also had a full fuel system cleaning done yesterday because someone mentioned that blending different octanes could cause this and here we have 91 and 93, so sometimes i don't pay attention.

anyway, any help or advice would be much appreciated. also (unrelated) doing the TCT install tonight. cheers folks

pps, my knock sensor was replaced with balade sports one less than 7 months ago