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Post by RattyMcClelland » Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:01 pm

judderod wrote:German plugs in Japanese engines don't tend to mix well. But Japanese plugs in German engines are fine?!

BKR6E. They're about £1 each if you search. Good for 10k miles at least.
These http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165736

Halfords want £17.... :lol: I need them for this weekend so ill have to go to halfreddies and get them. :evil:
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Post by Rikmister » Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:55 pm

Good ones to get are from euro car parts. They are very cheap with loads of discount codes and you get warranty

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Post by judderod » Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:33 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:Halfords want £17
Bloody rip off merchants. If you can get to a motor factors they'd surely be cheaper.

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Post by BigTom » Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:10 am

Just get NGK coppers, they're £3 each on ebay and will definitely work fine.

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Post by nucleustylzlude » Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:11 pm

As said above, just the NGK coppers is all you need. Why not the one step colder in preparation for the tune? Shouldn't really make much difference?

I have these for my tuning:

ZFR7F-11 (obviously a step colder than you supposedly want)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NGK-SPARK-PLU ... 485c55b050

I paid about £16ish.

If you want to stick with the same heat range for now, then:

ZFR6F-11
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-x-NGK-ZFR6F ... 4d153fd288

£12 a set

Once she's tuned on the copper 7 heat range I then have the same heat range Denso Iridiums to put in:

IK22
Which sounds like the £40 ones you have ready and waiting.

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Post by RattyMcClelland » Fri Nov 22, 2013 4:04 pm

nucleustylzlude wrote:As said above, just the NGK coppers is all you need. Why not the one step colder in preparation for the tune? Shouldn't really make much difference?

I have these for my tuning:

ZFR7F-11 (obviously a step colder than you supposedly want)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NGK-SPARK-PLU ... 485c55b050

I paid about £16ish.

If you want to stick with the same heat range for now, then:

ZFR6F-11
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-x-NGK-ZFR6F ... 4d153fd288

£12 a set

Once she's tuned on the copper 7 heat range I then have the same heat range Denso Iridiums to put in:

IK22
Which sounds like the £40 ones you have ready and waiting.

It's all there bud...
http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/post4379.html#p4379
All the info for someone to build something I can't seem to manage to finish myself! :lol:
Way ahead of you. Got those Coppers already and the iridiums to replace once tunned.
I just didnt want to use the one step colder plugs right now since some of the yanks had fouling issues on 6psi with these and the normal ones were fine.
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Post by nucleustylzlude » Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:14 pm

All good then. 8-)

Sorted out the other issues yet? Working on the lude again Sunday! :ugeek:

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Post by RattyMcClelland » Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:52 pm

nucleustylzlude wrote:All good then. 8-)

Sorted out the other issues yet? Working on the lude again Sunday! :ugeek:
Just cant find the time. So busy with work and im shattered by the weekend. Plus my missus works in a night club so i usually pick her up at 4-6am and i go back to sleep, loose daylight.
Just so tedious now.

Just debating weather to use the green gaskets & instant gasket or just the instant gasket on its own.

Honestly though im not it any rush to sort it. Id rather have it running so i can drive it to free up the brakes but winter is comming and im leaving it off road i think. Plus i could drive it to coventry to get it tunned by by that time salt will do its job on my car. I may wait for tunning until march next year.

We will see.....

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Post by nucleustylzlude » Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:27 am

Cool. I think I saw somewhere you were taking it off the road for the winter. Think I might do the same... :?

Sounding as busy as me!

Personally I'd go with gasket paper and liquid gasket combined.

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Post by mercutio » Sat Nov 23, 2013 11:41 am

nucleustylzlude wrote:Cool. I think I saw somewhere you were taking it off the road for the winter. Think I might do the same... :?

Sounding as busy as me!

Personally I'd go with gasket paper and liquid gasket combined.
yours is on the road :shock:
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