please help me understand what the crap is going on? (wastegates) : Resolved!!!
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Silly website but all of them(them being sites) agree when your plug is carbon fouled...
http://www.dummies.com/home-garden/car-repair/how-to-assess-trouble-by-checking-your-spark-plugs/
Carbon-fouled plug Black, dry, fluffy soot on insulator tip and electrodes. Overly rich fuel/air mixture, dirty air filter, too much
driving at low speeds, or idling for a long time. Switch to “hotter” plug. (The higher the plug number,
the hotter the plug.)
http://www.dummies.com/home-garden/car-repair/how-to-assess-trouble-by-checking-your-spark-plugs/
Carbon-fouled plug Black, dry, fluffy soot on insulator tip and electrodes. Overly rich fuel/air mixture, dirty air filter, too much
driving at low speeds, or idling for a long time. Switch to “hotter” plug. (The higher the plug number,
the hotter the plug.)
When is the last time you cleaned your air filter? Might be worth while to check if its clogged...
FYI: Once plugs are in... you should never need to adjust them.. Gap them right the first time...
FYI: Once plugs are in... you should never need to adjust them.. Gap them right the first time...
If all the plugs were carbon fouled I would suspect that would be impacting overall engine performance...
Hoping you the best!
Still curious how all the plugs got fouled....
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Hoping you the best!
Still curious how all the plugs got fouled....
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There is a post here *somewhere* that described a clear intake manifold used to test meth kits to see where the meth ended up when sprayed like for kits like mine. (single nozzel high output spray). As it turns out more meth typically ends up in one bank versus another due to swirling under heavy spray where not all of it evaps..
*As a crackpot theory* one bank is running much cooler than the other. And the step colder plugs prevented self cleaning/high temp insulator burn off and the combo == my front back of sadness after just 10k miles.
in my case the front banks were extra carbon cripsy .. and not good like a nice steak carbon. the backs were much cleaner.. but also fouled to a degree worth replacing.
Back bank,,, not nearly as bad as the front. but bad enough to warrant replacement as they were only going to get worse with time.
*As a crackpot theory* one bank is running much cooler than the other. And the step colder plugs prevented self cleaning/high temp insulator burn off and the combo == my front back of sadness after just 10k miles.
in my case the front banks were extra carbon cripsy .. and not good like a nice steak carbon. the backs were much cleaner.. but also fouled to a degree worth replacing.
Back bank,,, not nearly as bad as the front. but bad enough to warrant replacement as they were only going to get worse with time.
They look wet?
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Could it be a byproduct of spraying too much?
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stealbluesho said:
**If** my test drive goes well today, and i feel it is fixed I will tell you in another 3 months after hooking the meth back up and enabling it.
EDIT:: Luckily it seems the front three plugs are better indicators. So that's an easy 10 minutes to peep and look.
stealbluesho said:
I can't see that being the case...I just looked at his STFT's while spraying and he was between .80-.90 which is what I usually like and is WAY less than I have seen many other Meth tunes run from other people....I've seen many other NON AJP tunes where the stft's are maxxed out at .75 and flat lined meaning the ECU couldn't even pull as much fuel as needed to maintain Lambse
So I would say he was only spraying a moderate amount of meth so he wasn't running overly rich....It's strange I guess