Well...Today I was driving and all the sudden, the car died. I pulled over at a seven eleven and I cant figure out what is giong on. I check the IC piping, the Bipes connections, looks for oil, didnt find nothing. well eventually, ten minutes later, i found that the Pipe off the Throttle Body poped off. Well before I figured this out, i was reving the car and what not, and saw black smoke ( thank god it wasnt white ) So, then I found the culprit and tightened it up. Now it missed fired. I drove it home and found One foul plug. I know Plan on getting some new NGK's Tommorrow. I have a few questions
1. Is .030 a good gap for turbo'd car plugs?
2. Missfiring, does it run on one less cylinder or does the foul plug fire, but not as strong?
3. Do I just buy regular NGKS (Iradium/Platnum) and gap them, Or is there a specific "colder" plug that I need to buy?
I didnt even know there was cold plugs and hot plugs.
Sorry for the headache guys
Thanks

 

get BKR7Es and just throw them in.


stop breaking your car. you are officially the new RicanRacer....

 

As in don't even worry about gapping them?

 

because they come pregapped.

 

FWIW, the BKR6Es I just bought were between .040 and .048. I'd still gap 'em yourself.

 

well glad it took you 7 months for that.....

 

On another note: Slidin is the first person I've seen with a negative feedback total...

I love thread resurrections.

 

I used the search function (gasp!)

It tends to bring up some old threads.

 

Did You Know? the search function has a date criteria.

 

*sigh*

So what, then, is the date limit for contributing to a topic? I though maybe since information about plug gap is still as relevant today as it was last August that it might not hurt to throw my two cents in.

 

so, did you search just to add .02c?

 

Nope. Searched to find a recommendation for plug gap, came across this thread during said search, noticed a post claiming NGKs come pre-gapped (supposed to, anyway), noticed mine were not only gapped too large for our needs as they came, but the gap was inconsistant. I then proceeded to post my findings on the interweb for the good of the community.

Didn't think it'd be that big of a deal..