my fun with spark plugs...

[camaroman1181]

so yeah.. yesterday i decided to change spark plugs in the car.. well i've done this more times than i can count (bout every 5-6k miles)and have gotten pretty good at it. however, since we didnt have any autolites in stock at work, i went for ac-delcos.. so after bout 1.5 hours, i'm all finished and everything is buttoned up. Crank the car... freakin misfire.. one cylinder is down. so i go and check all the wires but everything looks good.. figure ill just get a new set of wires cause i've had them on for a year and i get free replacements anyways.. so i do that. this morning i quick pop the new ones one.. still have the miss.. i'm really not pleased by this.. i cant drive my car like this and all my roomates are off at work. so i'm just stuck here now til someone can give me a ride to get new plugs.. after this i doubt i'll ever use ac plugs again. anyone else ever had this problem with ac plugs??? or am i just the lucky one.. lol..

[2002 v6 camaro uncharged]

I have AC plugs becuase that is what the RK Sport powerdyne instructions suggested to put in. I have not had any problems til recently but I think it is a bad wire. I have a 2002 and still have 3 out of 6 of my original wires. I only changed the first 2 because of my headers, the straight boot ones would not work and I just changed another original one becuase that one was a little to close to the header and eventually melted through causing it to miss.

[4thgenowner]

NGK's are awesome plugs. Cheap too, check them out. I wish the LT1 has the room the 3.4 does to change them... it needs it. But yeah, check out NGK. I've had good performance with them in my 93 V6.

[camaroman1181]

yeah.. i've been meaning to try them but we dont sell tehm at autozone and i'm too lazy to drive down to advanced.. lol.. i think ill try the ngk iridiums once i get m y engine together..

[3.4 slow to go]

nope, never really had problems w/ac delco plugs, but the autotrash plugs are a diferent story.

[Fredless]

I've had AC Delco Professionals in my car for about 35k now, love em...along with my 19.99 Xact wires. :D

AC delco professionals are NGK TR55 ix's in disguise.

[Dojo2000]

Why exactly are you changing your plugs so often? Send them to me and I'll run them at least another 25k miles.

[camaroman1181]

well i had talked to the guy that runs our commercial sales department at autozone and apperently there was a bad batch of ac-delco plugs that came out recently. the guy at the local chevy dealer told him they've been havin a hell of a time with them. so i guess i got one of those. in any case, autolites have always served me well.. dojo, i use a standard plug, not a platinum. those type of plugs do start to fall off after like 10-12k or so. i just change them early cause i love to work on my car for whatever excuse i can come up with..lol..

[Dojo2000]

That's pretty early cause copper plugs are recommended to be replaced every 30k or so, and platinums every 100k.

[Johnny Ray]

I only use AC/Delco plugs in our '97 Firebird.

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[wantmorepower]

Plugs in our cars suck...... Even after 9 years of bloody hands and it still takes me around 2 hours to change plugs . Uggggggggh. I would stretch the mileage out as much as possible between plug changes.

[Dojo2000]

Originally posted by wantmorepower:
Plugs in our cars suck...... Even after 9 years of bloody hands and it still takes me around 2 hours to change plugs . Uggggggggh. I would stretch the mileage out as much as possible between plug changes.

It usually takes me over 3 hours, but most of that time is spent cusing at my car.

[camaroman1181]

lol.. yeah, plugs do suck for our cars.. i got it down to like an hour and a half.. woulda been half hour less if i coulda gotten the spark plug wire off of cylinder 6... why they put that air pump bracket directly over the plug i'll never konw..