The Chef.

Platinum Plugs. They say you can literally tell a performance diffrence.

Questions:
Is this true?
What Plugs?
How much are they?
What is the logic behind the improved performance?
How big of a PIA is it to change plugs in our cars?

bhvrdr

30-40 degrees cooler than the same plug in a platinum. Platinum is used for one purpose, to make the plug last longer (100,000 miles in many cases). Platinum has no performace advantage at all. In fact it cannot be run in high pressure turbo or nitrous types of environments. Copper is simply a better conducter. The only drawback is that they need to be changed at every oil change. I use these coppers. They are the same heat range as stock and come gapped at .032:
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/57072/densoandngk.jpg"><ul><li><a href="https://forums.audiworld.com/a4/msgs/1541554.phtml">https://forums.audiworld.com/a4/msgs/1541554.phtml</a</li></ul>

The Chef.

the Copper plugs on that link are gapped -11 or .044 and then Re gapped to .032. Not being a technical guy myself, how does one gap a plug? Also I have no idea how to get into our engine to remove the plugs nor where they are....
TIA.

bhvrdr

Gotcha, no need to buy the ones gapped at .044 when the pn in the picture come gapped at .032

The Chef.

How do I get to the plugs? Again not very technical, but this shouldnt be to hard....
TIA

bhvrdr

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sparkplugs.com">http://www.sparkplugs.com</a</li></ul>

saejin

Check the gap...mine were gapped incorrectly and I had to redo them...BKR7E works also

bhvrdr

Good advice except I wouldnt run a copper in a colder heat range with less than 250hp in our cars

DLSJ5

They work great, the BKRE6 are great too, also ran the BKRE7's and they did well, just settled with the Bosch, cause they're German. : )

bhvrdr

let us know if you get any fouling over time. that's pretty cold.