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Re: [Healeys] Spark Plugs

To: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Spark Plugs
From: Bob Haskell <rchaskell@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 06:25:41 -0500
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Bob,

Looks like NA8 were replaced by N5C.  But if you're looking for originality:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-NOS-Champion-NA8-Black-Body-Spark-Plugs-Austin-Healey-100-4-Jaguar-XK120-MG-TD/393094267661

Cheers,

Bob Haskell
Austin Healey 3000 BN7/BT7 registrar

On 1/31/21 6:48 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> We are running Champion N3C in our BN2; they work well.
>
> The shop manual calls for Champion NA.8 (whatever those are):
>
>
>
> On 1/27/2021 1:16 PM, Michael MacLean wrote:
>> Not to get too far off the subject about Healeys, but my Harley 
>> Davidson (30s technology like our cars) runs the best on the cheapest 
>> Ford Autolite 4164 copper plugs.  I tried "high performance" plugs 
>> from Harley Davidson and saw no difference.  Best of all they are 
>> only 89 cents a piece when on sale and I only need two at a time.  
>> Does anyone know for sure which Champion plug works for the BN2?
>> Mike MacLean
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 10:18:57 AM PST, Kees Oudesluijs 
>> <coudesluijs@chello.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Never had much problems with trouble because of plugs on any of my 
>> vehicles in the past 55 years. The only thing that is more or less 
>> important is to gap them, clean them once in a while and replace when 
>> they are to far gone. I do not think I even did that in the last ten 
>> years or so. I have nearly always used Champion plugs as they are 
>> very cheap: between â?¬8 and â?¬15 for four.
>>
>> I presume that electronic ignition (Pertronix in my case) may also help.
>>
>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>
>>
>> Op 27-1-2021 om 18:27 schreef Laurie Wilford:
>> I continue to use only Champion plugs in my Healeys but have 
>> experienced at least two episodes of plug problems over the years. 
>> Based on the number of miles covered that is probably not too bad, 
>> but the second time was with a newly installed set of plugs. One was 
>> defective.
>> Both times the symptoms were intermittent missing both at idle and on 
>> the highway.  Finally changing plugs was of course one of the last 
>> things I did.
>>
>> Laurie Wilford
>>
>> Sent from my Galaxy
>>
>>
>>
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