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

 

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.

 

I thought you were NE crew? Fuuuuck.

 

No sir.

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

 

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

 

I have a sawzall.

 

Why bother? Otoscopes are cheap.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.