Thread: Spark Plug tips gone!!! UPDATE 2/6/2011

Do eeeeet. With a small ass pulley.

Don't really need much tuning for ported heads as much as you would for E85...plus...it helps kill knock just about as well as E85 does...

Originally Posted by miker56

Should i go E85

You should! BUT you better teach yourself how to tune and get some bigger injectors B/C with a higher compresson motor, cam, headers and pulley you WILL need larger injectors. might as well go with 65#ers.

If your not going e85 get some 39# ford mustang injectors (these are pretty cheap) too. they plug right into the 04+ harness and with our fuel pressure its almost the same as 42# injectors.

Originally Posted by BoostnBlackGTP

when i 1st got my car i had a misfire and come to find out the tip on cyl. #4 was gone. but i have no damage to the engine from what i know. he may not have damage. u never know

Same here it was after I did a 100mph run to find out if my tune took the limiter off. It burnt the end off the spark plug. No Damage to the motor was done. I had a bad missfire though. Changed the plug and its been fine ever since.

I hate how you guys assume a engine is toast after someones car eats a plug esp burning the tip off. If the plug is smashed well yeah that's not good.



Good luck on your build man. Looks like alot of fun!

Originally Posted by rynoman03

No Damage to the motor was done. I had a bad missfire though. Changed the plug and its been fine ever since.

But, you've never had the head off...so you don't know. You can't say no damage was done because you don't really know...see what I'm gettin' at? Get a borescope and check it out that way then.

Originally Posted by rynoman03

I hate how you guys assume a engine is toast after someones car eats a plug esp burning the tip off. If the plug is smashed well yeah that's not good.

We assume...because how else is the tip of a plug going to be totally gone...either there is something is a foreign object that smashed it to oblivion...from...example...a piece of piston...OR...the temps in the combustion chamber are so hot they melted the plug...and that wouldn't be to great for it either...just sayin'.

I suppose. But if I had done any damage surely it would have Blew the F up after driving it for 4 years after it happend.

Originally Posted by 01gpgt01

......Your rear cats probobly clogged, and yes theres a gasket for the exhaust manifolds
And who runs plugs for 100K miles

Uhhh....the guy who owned the car I have before me. I changed them, and swear you could drive a transport truck through them.

Originally Posted by miker56

Pulled my egine due to oil coming out manifold, and here i found a chipped pistion on number 5. And all along ive been running with it lol, untill the ring went bad.

JB weld and a new piston ring and your golden