[s-cars] Re. Spark plug

[Ben Swann]

Apparantly I got the bad end of the bell curve failure-wise on my NGKs.  I did hear good
things and what Scott said re. Iridium makes sense.\
 
Indeed I don't install enough plugs to have any statistical significance.  I was just
reporting my results.
 
Maybe I'll try them again.
 
Ben

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You digress?

Anyway... like I said, experience seems to vary.  I've dropped numerous electrodes on
the Bosch plugs.  Hap and Mike Pederson had similar experiences.  After Hap had one of
those incidents, I removed his turbo to find his turbine missing most of one blade from
"passing" an electrode.

I've run the NGKs in my UrS at 30psi, as well as in my stage 3 '01 S4 with no trouble at
all.

Cost was never an object for me... I just wanted a plug that wouldn't come apart.

Dave





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From: Ben Swann <benswann at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re. Spark plug



Dave, 
I digress.  I have never had a Bosch failure - the recommended F5DPOR plugs go for the
duration and get replaced as a matter of course.  
The NGK plugs  on the other hand - several were pretty much DOA causing me a real
troubleshooting nightmare.  I put the 100kmile Bosch back in place of the defective NGK
and engine runs fine at over 3 Bar.
The NGK weren't that cheap either. 
Go figure. 
Ben 
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 yeah, it is a dead horse, and seems to be personal preference.  Me... I will never
install a Bosch plug in one of my cars again, not when there is an NGK alternative.
I've dropped one too many Bosch electrodes into the cylinder on high boost applications.
Dave]