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Re: TR4A plugs

To: jaboruch <jaboruch@netzero.net>
Subject: Re: TR4A plugs
From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:43:54 -0500
jaboruch wrote:

> I have been using Champion C59YC or C61YC plugs in my TR3 and in my
> Spitfire, and so far so good.  They are 3/4 inch reach projected tip
> plugs that you can get way out into the chamber if you want.  You can
> adjust the depth with indexing washers.  I still want to do some dyno
> power comparisons between them and the 1/2 inch reach plugs.  I do
> have a concern that if they are out too far they will interfear with
> the flame path.   It sounds to me that it would be a good project for
> a Grassroots Motorsports article.  How about it Tim?  You guys seem to
> have lots of Dyno access.  Joe(B)
> ----- Original Message -----
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> To: <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>; <jmwagner@greenheart.com>;
> <TRBILBO@aol.com>
> Cc: <cak@dimebank.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 6:48 AM
> Subject: Re: TR4A plugs
>
> > Justin Wagner wrote:
> >
> > >  >I can second the motion...  Champion plugs always ended up
> takin' a
> > beatin'.
> > >  >and still tickin'....
> >
> > John Lye notes:
> > >  Well, I'll second Chris's experience with Champions failing and
> NGKs
> > working
> > >  well....
> >
> > Then perhaps I shouldn't even mention that, for a number of years,
> the best
> > plugs I could find in my bone-stock, autocrossing terror :-) of a
> GT6+ were
> > AC plugs! And I've used a wide range of NOS Champions (some ranges
> I'm not
> > sure you can even BUY any more, at least not through the big chain
> stores
> > with their "HUH?" clerks Larry, Daryl and Daryl) in The Hardly Boys
> RaceSpit
> > 4 autocrosser.
> >
> > And the WORST plugs I've ever used in any car: SplitFires. Yet I
> know folks
> > who swear by those rather than AT them....
> >
> > --Andy
> >
> > Andrew Mace, President, The Vintage Triumph Register
> >
>
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I've tried repeatedly to find a plug heat range comparison on the
Internet, with no luck whatsoever. Anyone know of one?


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