Abstract:The experiment was conducted on a MPI boosted gasoline engine to analyze the influence of intake temperature, engine load, ignition timing and lambda on preignition frequency on the basis of the incylinder ioncurrent detection. The results show that small variation of intake pressure will not increase preignition events significantly. Higher engine load and advancing ignition timing will lead to higher preignition frequency. Incylinder enrichment will decrease its frequency but a higher fuel consumption instead. At the start of preignition event, obvious ion current signal can be detected. Compared with the cylinder pressure threshold method, ion current detection can find out all the preignition events, including the cycles with lower combustion pressure. Especially, the characteristic ion current signal of preignition can be detected 25°CA BTDC. This provides a potential control to suppress preignition events for modern engines.