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resurrected 10-03-2022 06:23 AM

In the mid 90's a buddy of mine bought a drag sled, thinking he could trail ride it. If he tried to run just plain premium gas, every time he would let off the throttle from a wide open run it would blow the porcelain out of both plugs, if he ran 110 it would not happen. The few rides we went on prior to reducing the cr required pockets full of new plugs.

AllDodge 10-03-2022 07:42 AM

There is a hole lot of white on those plugs

SB 10-03-2022 07:53 AM


Originally Posted by JaniH (Post 4846891)
Ok, the cyl 3 has 10bar compression, wich is 3bar less compared to other cylinders (13bar). Made leakdown test that measured 90%(cold engine) and got more confused.

Just converting bar into soomething we understand so we can follow.

10 bar = 145psi
13 bar = 188.5 psi

JaniH 10-03-2022 08:51 AM


Originally Posted by SB (Post 4847085)
Just converting bar into soomething we understand so we can follow.

10 bar = 145psi
13 bar = 188.5 psi

those numbers are correct 👍

AllDodge 10-03-2022 08:57 AM

delete

JaniH 10-03-2022 09:06 AM


Originally Posted by AllDodge (Post 4847084)
There is a hole lot of white on those plugs

yep, looks lean to me. I have AEM uego lsu 4.2 cauge in both risers wich reads 12.6 at cruising, 12.8 at wot. Offcourse i was not looking for the a/f cauges when this happened, i was just installed a water pressure cauge to my cooling system and were looking for the water pressure.


JaniH 10-03-2022 09:10 AM


Originally Posted by resurrected (Post 4847079)
In the mid 90's a buddy of mine bought a drag sled, thinking he could trail ride it. If he tried to run just plain premium gas, every time he would let off the throttle from a wide open run it would blow the porcelain out of both plugs, if he ran 110 it would not happen. The few rides we went on prior to reducing the cr required pockets full of new plugs.

European 98e 5% ethanol gas is what i use. Some claims it is similar to your 93 octane.

JaniH 10-03-2022 09:42 AM

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...add533e1e9.jpg
Engine is out of the boat. Very curious what i find when i bull the head of.

Cap'm Kurt 10-03-2022 05:49 PM

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#1 and #7 look just very slightly on the rich side, but okay. Rest look good. The white on the porcelain is olay also. The porcelain can be one indicator of the correct (or incorrect) heat range of the plug. Jmo.

here's one article that explains some things. There's another i am trying to find that I've seen before that explains things pretty good as well.

http://www.4secondsflat.com/Spark_plug_reading.html

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Cap'm Kurt 10-03-2022 06:13 PM

another good writeup

https://www.dragstuff.com/techarticl...ead-plugs.html


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