Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

Next time I am up your way I'll give you the four minute plug reading and peering down the spark plug hole lecture.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

When the hell are you going to be in Kansas City? Lol.

I have a faint idea of how to read plugs, but I am no expert at any facet of tuning by any means.

This whole ordeal started when another local tuner gave me his thoughts on what was going on with this engine.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

I thought you were NE crew? Fuuuuck.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

No sir.

I am part of the nobody cares about the middle of the US crew.

:6

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

JD's you gotta show him how to cut the plugs apart first to read them right :)

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

I have a sawzall.

;D

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

Why bother? Otoscopes are cheap.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

I was thinking more of a 4" angle grinder in one hand, hold the spark plug with the other.

I had two KILLER links about reading plugs, didn't post them on D-series because it would have been over most of their heads and just led to 2000 more questions.........

Like JD got about the Y8 timing BS.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

Would you mind sharing good sir?

I have read one several times, but I have yet to put that knowledge to practice.

http://www.dragstuff.com/techarticle...-pictures.html

Sadly, I don't think anyone in the Honda market here even knows how to read spark plugs.

I could be wrong though.

Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
 

Sewell, Blundell, Xeno, I, and others do.

My main mojo that I can lay on you, that I don't hear *anywhere* is that sometimes the plug looks like there's trash on it but it's just from a misfire or wear. The definitive answer is looking at the face of the piston witha bright flashlight; if the carbon coat looks like you've poked holes through it with a pin, so that you can see pinpricks of shiny aluminum, you are experiencing detonation and timing needs to be backed off in that cylinder.