What have you done to your MSP today?

[Shadow102]

So not sure who told you guys otherwise but the msp stock plugs are irridium and they work excelent until you start upping the boost. Even then stick with the irridium and go a step colder.

 

[SCMP3]

ok so i think i will get the platinums unless perswaded otherways and also what do i gap them to again?

 

[Wagonbacker9]

I have heard far too many people hate on the iridiums to waste money on em.. my ngks work great

 

[Shadow102]

I don't understand how bosch keeps selling plugs but they don't work in japanese cars EVER! They have always caused me problems...I tend to use them for pluging tranny cooler lines when I yank transmissions lol.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

ok so i think i will get the platinums unless perswaded otherways and also what do i gap them to again?

I gapped to 32.. but you're going to get VERY mixed answers here from various people. I'm gonna stay out of it. lol

 

[terbow]

So not sure who told you guys otherwise but the msp stock plugs are irridium and they work excelent until you start upping the boost. Even then stick with the irridium and go a step colder.

didnt know that. the iridiums i got from autozone caused all kinda of sputtering on acceleration (2 sets),so i got some stock ones and they worked great. the parts guy told me it was platinum. thats where i got it from.

good to know.

 

[terbow]

ok so i think i will get the platinums unless perswaded otherways and also what do i gap them to again?

.28 - .32 is stock spec. i use .30

 

[Wagonbacker9]

I don't understand how bosch keeps selling plugs but they don't work in japanese cars EVER! They have always caused me problems...I tend to use them for pluging tranny cooler lines when I yank transmissions lol.

I used +4's in my corolla back in the day and didn't notice problems... but... that car did 0-60 in a week as it was, so who knows. If I BEAT on it i could make 70-75 on most on-ramps. LOL

 

[Shadow102]

didnt know that. the iridiums i got from autozone caused all kinda of sputtering on acceleration (2 sets),so i got some stock ones and they worked great. the parts guy told me it was platinum. thats where i got it from.

good to know.

I was pretty positive they were iridiums but asked my gf (12yrs mazda parts experience) and she said they are absolutly ngk iridium and are the same plug used in the 2.3l millenia...she even rambled off the part number lol. But yeah usually the easiest way to tell its iridium is to look at the tip. The little tiny sharp pointed tip is a typical dead give away for iridium.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

I was pretty positive they were iridiums but asked my gf (12yrs mazda parts experience) and she said they are absolutly ngk iridium and are the same plug used in the 2.3l millenia...she even rambled off the part number lol. But yeah usually the easiest way to tell its iridium is to look at the tip. The little tiny sharp pointed tip is a typical dead give away for iridium.

the difference between the standard, platnium, and iridium is nothing, a "P", or an "I" in front of the part number I listed in the previous page. For a step colder, replace the 6 with a 7....

 

[Shadow102]

I used +4's in my corolla back in the day and didn't notice problems... but... that car did 0-60 in a week as it was, so who knows. If I BEAT on it i could make 70-75 on most on-ramps. LOL

Lol I would be almost willing to bet money that the car idled like it had solid motor mounts. That's where I see bosch's the most is in older corollas and they all have the same problem.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

mine was a 96, 1.8l, 5 speed... low mileage. been too long for me to remember how it idled.. thank god.

 

[terbow]

I was pretty positive they were iridiums but asked my gf (12yrs mazda parts experience) and she said they are absolutly ngk iridium and are the same plug used in the 2.3l millenia...she even rambled off the part number lol. But yeah usually the easiest way to tell its iridium is to look at the tip. The little tiny sharp pointed tip is a typical dead give away for iridium.

ahh, now that you mention it i remember the smaller tip. Plugs are one thing i really havent had to mess with on the car, i got stock ones till i put in teh AFC and ran 10 psi so i went one step colder NGK somethings and thats it. I get confused cause its something i havent had to fight with lol

 

[Wagonbacker9]

thanks to the bosch's... I did. cracked one of the insulators... ran like crap as soon as I boosted.

 

[Shadow102]

Ok correction the 2.3l millenia took a plat. Plug but the msp did take iridium plugs from the factory

 

[terbow]

thanks to the bosch's... I did. cracked one of the insulators... ran like crap as soon as I boosted.

ew, that must have drove like el shiznit.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

it idled kinda funny SOMETIMES, and fell on its ass when I boosted once it was warmed up.... it was a nightmare to diagnose, especially without a boost gauge in.
Hell even with my boost gauge in now, I don't think my vac reading is correct. It never shows more than like 5-8 lbs... and my car idles like a dream. lol

 

[Outlawstar98]

I have ngk V Powers, and they work perfectly fine, its at stock hear range still.

 

[terbow]

So i called autozone and they told me the stock ones are platinum. They are NGK's. I could have sworn the iridiums didnt work for me and i went back to a platinum. Are you sure they are iridiums stock? Im not argueing or anything, i just want clarification cause i could have sworn the werent iridiums stock.

 

[Wagonbacker9]

no, but his gf is, so he's pretending he is so as not to be beaten (or cut off from the lovin... which is worse) lol

btw, I'm not sure if I should be baffled or impressed at your level of dedication to fully answering this question. If its not google-able... I'm not going to bother. lol