Fellow listers,
A response from Randy Zoller, owner, British Heritage Motorsports.
http://www.britishheritagemotorsports.com/
regarding NGK plugs. Just another man's opinion.
BTW, I use Champion plugs in my Healey and MGA.
David C
www.dcoyote.org
----- Original Message -----
From: <dcrawfor@san.rr.com>
To: <trihard2@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: NGK spark plug recommendation
Randy,
Can I post your response on the list?
David C
----- Original Message -----
From: <trihard2@juno.com>
To: <dcrawfor@san.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: NGK spark plug recommendation
Sure. Might as well subject myself to as much ridicule as possible!!
Back in the late 60's and early 70's NGK was the only way to go. They had a
copper core and a wider heat range and were much better quality. Champion
switched to a copper core mid 70's to compete. Champions are also much
better quality now and have a more precise heat range. Way back when, NGK's
were all made in Japan and were excellent quality. If you look at the base
of an
NGK now it will say assembled in Mexico or India or whatever and tend to
have
a failure rate much higher than in the past. Champions dollar for dollar are
the
way to go now.
Randy
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----- Original Message -----
From: <sooch@houston.rr.com>
To: "Neil Anderson" <nlaredbt7@tbc.net>
Cc: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: NGK spark plug recommendation
> Neil,
>
> Iridium is a waste of money unless you are running a highly boosted
> turbo or supercharger engine, or possibly very high compression. I am
> not a big fan of platinum plugs in general because they are not best
> for performance, they are best for people who don't want to change
> their plugs for 100K miles.
>
> The V-power plugs are a nice upgrade to the standard and usually yield
> a smoother idle. Both electrodes just have more sharp edges so they
> take less power to fire. The standards would be fine too and are still
> better, in my opinion, than the Champions.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> BJ8
>
>> I would like to switch from Champion RN12YC spark plugs to NGK
>> plugs. The NGK website lists four that would work.
>>
>> Standard
>> V Power
>> G Power Platinum
>> Iridium IX
>>
>> Is anyone using NGK plugs and have a recommendation of one of the
>> four I listed above? Price is of no real concern, even though the
>> Iridium plugs are over $6 ea.
>>
>> I was actually kind of surprised that the NGK site had vintage
>> Healeys in their car model search database. They said Sprites use the
>> same
>> plugs. Is this true??
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neil Anderson
>> '60 BT7
>> "59 Bugeye
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