Am I burning lean or REALLY lean?

[123abc]

What are you gapping your plugs to? Are you on a stock setup/injectors or whats the story?

[311evo]

I'm wondering about the gap too.

Otherwise tune. Do you have an intake on it?

Edit: Boost leak test done.. ever?

[2zzgtte]

Sounds like it's rich? Please tell me how you can hear such a thing.

Are your plugs gapped correctly?

Oops, sorry. It should have "smelled" rich.

My gap is .025 on BPR7ES.

I remember I could hear a little misfire and it smelled rich. Slap in your cams and have shane tune it

Haha, "slap" them in... I'm not mechaniclly inclined so nothing is "slapping" it in... Plugs is the easiest thing for me to do but that still takes me a while lol :D

What are you gapping your plugs to? Are you on a stock setup/injectors or whats the story?

My gap is .025 on BPR7ES.

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I'm wondering about the gap too.

Otherwise tune. Do you have an intake on it?

Edit: Boost leak test done.. ever?

No boost test ever done. Maybe I should try one? Maybe I should try compression test while I'm at it too.

[Matt D.]

If you are that concerned about your car when the plugs look fine then you really should do a boost leak test and have Shane look at the tune. You aren't going to get a magical answer by making forum posts on the internet.

[GsXtUrBo98]

He's just trying to build his post numbers. Give him some slack:wink:

If you are that concerned about your car when the plugs look fine then you really should do a boost leak test and have Shane look at the tune. You aren't going to get a magical answer by making forum posts on the internet.

[2zzgtte]

Lol, Sorry guys. I thought they looked lean to me. Just thought I'd ask. I could care less about post numbers :D

[GsXtUrBo98]

Lol, Sorry guys. I thought they looked lean to me. Just thought I'd ask. I could care less about post numbers :D

Lol, it was a joke.. I was giving some shit.. just bored at work like matt d I guess.:biggrin:

[2zzgtte]

I am in the same boat as you guys... Trying to get my Google Talk to go through my Proxy and it just wont work. Since we have came to a conclusion about my spark plugs, maybe someone can give me advice on that?? lol

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Your plugs don't look fouled out or anything, and they aren't covered in oil residue either.

Copper plugs don't last forever either though. You might have a weak coil(stock Evo coils suck) or bad plug wire, if it will only fire smoothly with perfectly new plugs. Or your ignition timing in the tune could be too far off.

A lot of people confuse the smell of a car idling/running lean with that of a rich car. Lean smells very noxious. Really rich and gas will be coming out the exhaust pipe, but it will smell like raw gas and your plugs will usually be dripping wet.

[scheides]

Good call shane, stock coil boots and plugwires go bad quicker than most people think; if the car is missing and the plugs are not gunked up, def replace both (or do the spoolinup COP woot!). I have a good set of stock coils w/ good boots/wires if you want to borrow them as a test.