10-03-2011, 09:23am
(09-03-2011, 09:56pm)Skidmarx Wrote: i havnt had my busa long enough to need plugs, but my R1 used to go through plugs pretty bad, used to kill one or 2 plugs about every 1500k's then she would missfire and id end up riding home on 2 or 3 cyls, put in a set of ngk iridiums in the next hotter heat range, didnt have a drama after that, its now done around 6000 hard k's with out a hint of drama, cant say i noticed a power or torque increase, but reliability definatly jumped up a few notches
It was the hotter heat range that fixed the problem, nothing to do with iridium. Sounds like it was running rich, and the hotter pug just masked the real cause of poor running. Has it been dyno'd before?
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