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Old 04-11-2009   #486
Halon
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Re: My Winter Upgrades

Car wasn't running too well last night. Today I went and checked the gap on all my plugs. They were all still at .020. I decided to bump them down to .018. I also left my spark plug cover off after I regapped the plugs. Took the car for a spin and it's running beautiful.

I'm not sure yet, but the issues I had last night I'm thinking may be 1 or 2 of these things:

1) Cold weather making me run lean
2) Plugs needed to be gapped smaller
3) Spark Plug cover squishing the wires too close together.

Those were really the only 3 things that changed from last night and this morning, and the car is running good now.

I'm going to leave the spark plug cover off for awhile and see if the issue ever comes back. If it does come back, then I'm thinking it may be the cold weather. If the problem doesn't come back, I think I'll put it back on and see if it comes back as soon as I put it back on.

I'm hopping on MAP's dyno in 2hrs to get a good Dyno Dynamics vs Dyno Jet comparison.
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