Ignition timing and piston rings...
07-22-2008, 01:29 AM
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Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
Originally Posted by Joseph Davis
Next time I am up your way I'll give you the four minute plug reading and peering down the spark plug hole lecture.
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.
07-22-2008, 02:20 AM
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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.
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.
07-22-2008, 02:25 AM
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Re: Ignition timing and piston rings...
Originally Posted by Mista Bone
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.
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.
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.
07-22-2008, 02:28 AM
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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.
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.
