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Postby Ajay » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:24 pm

hey guys..

where is the best place to find YELLOW coloured leads (preferably better performance ones) and also Iridium PLugs..

and whats the $$$ for these roughly

Thanks in advance

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Postby Boags » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:33 pm

eBay for iridiums!

I got my leads from QLD ignition leeds. They are high performance 9mm leads and they did yellow. They have a template and could post a set to you if you want.

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Postby Ajay » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:43 pm

thanks boags..

just got some BKR6EIX-11 i hope these were the right ones.. its what the NGK website said lol..

now i have to call this leads place

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Postby Ajay » Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:46 pm

oh and buy the way iridiums are the good plugs for lasting a long time arent they?.. not platinums..

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Postby irwin83r » Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:07 pm

mx5_boy wrote:oh and buy the way iridiums are the good plugs for lasting a long time arent they?.. not platinums..

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is what they say yeah

i got yellow leads from repco about a year ago for 110 think they were top guns
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Postby Geoffro » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:38 am

mx5_boy wrote:oh and buy the way iridiums are the good plugs for lasting a long time arent they?.. not platinums..

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No the other way around, platinums last 80000k's the iridiums are a performance plug.
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Postby Sean » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:42 am

I'm still yet to find any magical spark plugs...

As long as you have the right temp and gap you sholdn't be having problems with the good old $3 NGKs.... And at $3 you buy a whole lot of plugs before you're up to the cost of any of the supposedly better ones.
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Postby Garry » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:31 am

What Sean said. The platinum ones are great for those stupid cars that need to be half disassembled to get to the plugs. A plug change in an MX5 is a 10min job. I'd rather buy the cheapies and replace them at regular intervals and pocket the change for other more worthwhile pursuits.
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Postby GP » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:50 am

Yay,I was beginning to think everyone has been sucked in by these \"Magic Plugs\".
Standard NGK's are the way to go.
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Postby kula » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:54 am

i run the bosch 4 prong jobbies, and it might have been placebo effect, but i think i noticed a little more mid range torque..
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Postby GP » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:11 pm

They are for oil burners, Only 1 will spark and when it fouls 1 of the others should take over.
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Postby Sean » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:40 pm

GP wrote:They are for oil burners, Only 1 will spark and when it fouls 1 of the others should take over.
They are popular amongst the guys in formula V racing too, I assume for similar reasons ie one fails the next takes over.
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Postby pcmx5 » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:43 pm

kula wrote:i run the bosch 4 prong jobbies, and it might have been placebo effect, but i think i noticed a little more mid range torque..


I did two back to back runs at a club dyno day a couple of years ago with old plugs and then the Bosch 4 prong ones and LOST 1 kw!!

I can't rember what the torque figs were and they may have given a better spread of torque or more torque but i was a bit miffed at the time as they weren't cheap!!!

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Postby Sean » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:35 pm

Is 1kw really measurable? I mean heat soak could easily account for 1kw
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Postby pcmx5 » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:22 pm

Sean wrote:Is 1kw really measurable? I mean heat soak could easily account for 1kw


It was 1.6 or something and it certainly wasn't an improvement!!!!!!!
However I withdraw this remark on the ground that it is technically inadmissable!!!

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