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Offline johnny

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This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« on: July 12, 2017, 07:04:29 PM »
greetings...

been chasing a miss at 85 hundert... new fuel filter... seafoam liquid valve job... techron liquid injector job... no corn ethyl... no change...

before i polyurethane spray the rubber intakes and rubber hoses again i thought id do the unthinkable... replace my 74,000 mile ngk plugs...

here that are... you know... i gotts 140 thow on the plugs in my jeep and it aints never missed at any rpm... these look gapped like a moe...

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Re: This Is What 74,000 Miles Plugs Look Like On A 150,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2017, 07:09:00 PM »
Quote from: johnny on July 12, 2017, 07:04:29 PM
before i polyurethane spray the rubber intakes and rubber hoses again
Use glitter spray this time. :yippee:
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2017, 07:15:03 PM »
greetings...

aints no glamour with glitter unless i go naked...

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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2017, 09:34:57 PM »
Those ain't plugs, those are slugs! 👽


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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2017, 09:57:48 PM »
You gotta buy something better than Wally World plugs next time.
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2017, 10:11:12 PM »
They look like Nickel Town Custom plugs. They just need a "spark recharge" .


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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2017, 10:33:38 PM »
I feel bad for those electrodes...
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2017, 02:50:37 AM »

Just re-gap them and they should be good to go.
Regards Martin. :2thumbup:
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2017, 09:19:16 AM »
Are they Iridium plugs?  If so, isn't that the way the center electrode is supposed to look?

I just use the classic NGK plugs and change them every 20,000 miles. 

With a wasted spark ignition, I would expect half the miles before the plug is used up because of the spark occurring twice as often, and because half of those sparks are not under compression which is where more electrode erosion will occur.
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2017, 09:54:07 AM »
greetings...

wait till i show you 48,000 miles moly 60 on the ole splines...

yesser they are irodium pluggs... dr7eix...

here are some closer upps...

more later...

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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2017, 10:08:46 AM »
Is that how they looked coming out of the engine?  I'm sorta thinking you might want to give a cooler plug a try.
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2017, 10:16:04 AM »
greetings...

i think they look tremendous... i put some audiovox plugs in there from china... i scored 8... im gonna carry the 4 spares in the bung so i will be guaranteed 0% failure rate...

still gotts the miss at 85 hundert... gonna have to spray suspected vacuum leakers down with polyurethane clearcoat... last time i used hairspray... butts hairspray today aints what it used to be... caint have a miss in the power zone like that cause it will chew up the side of my tiors...

more later...

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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2017, 12:18:56 PM »
If you are breaking up at 85 hundert maybe you needs to disable the yeehaa limiter.  I think it might be in the chip, but not 100% sure.
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2017, 04:21:10 PM »
this  must be one of them new fangled electrodless plugs  :clap:
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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2017, 04:32:57 PM »
greetings..

if it wearnt for no corn ethyl there would be no electrode at all...

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Re: This Is What 74,000 Mile Plugs Look Like On A 148,000 RS Eleven Hundert
« Reply #15 on: July 13, 2017, 05:42:36 PM »
"polyurethane spray the rubber intakes and rubber hoses" say what?  I can't tell if this is genius or like the time you told me all the cool kids lube their final drive with dabs these days.
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