nycgps

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Heh ...

Overfilled my car with oil on last oil change, yep I see oil in intake

so, spent 2 hours of my time to drain the oil and clean the filters, hell even the MAF sensor has engine oil on it too (probably the reason why my Mpg is like **** for the past 2-3 weeks)

Anyway, I drain the oil, and clean the filter. waiting for it to dry ... I was starring at my car and I was like hmm, why not pull the plugs out and see what it looks like !

Below is the picture of the sparkplugs, stock heat range, Leading and Trailing.




lol !

my car has no idle problems, pulls hard, no signs of failure or anything. but meh, those plugs looks like a done deal for me.

So I put some HKS plugs into it, much colder heat range than stock, now Im @ 37.5K miles. see what happens when I hit 50K miles. (if they last that long)

Anyway, to all Synthetic oil haters



DIE !

Not bad, like what, 2.5 bux a quart after MIR. not bad not bad. Shell Full Synthetic FTW ! (I still have RP in my basement, but I m gonna use all the Shell up first)

HiTMaNN

LoL I was actually going to check my spark plugs tomorrow yours look pretty brutal. How much those HKS ones run you?

PS LOL @ the Shell Oil :|

Jedi54

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who uses shell oil????
got 15k on my plugs, I'll probably check them this weekend

swoope

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looks like your plugs need a track day.. and shell, wtf. we all know castrol syntec is the bomb.

beers

LionZoo

That's about how my plugs looked like when I pulled them this past weekend. Of course I have 30,000 miles on those plugs, but I was noticing that my fuel mileage was suffering a bit recently. With the new plugs, there's definitely more power.

nycgps

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Those HKS plugs cost me I think 40 something each.

The picture looks kinda black, but its more like brown in person. Keep in mind my old plugs were Mazda plugs, Leading 7, Trailing 9

New HKS plugs are like Leading 9, Trailing 11. Yep, 2 steps colder.

Meh, like I said, those shell cost me about 2.5 bux per quart after MIR. not bad IMO

I use Shell oil.

2.5 bux a quart, Full Synthetic Oil, Beat that !


lol ! 2.5 per quart FTW !!!!!

I got about 14K miles if I remember it correctly or a less.

Not sure if its new clean plugs or colder plugs, the car pulls even harder now.

Cody Red

how do you go about cleaning the MAF?

i could search, but it's not really off topic.

nycgps

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Use Electrical safe Cleaner, Spray the crap outa it, then I left it on my air purifier with my cleaned K&N Filter. 15 minutes all dried up. no mess.

ZoomZoomH

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those plugs look about the same as mine after 30,000 miles.... wonder why yours got that filthy that quickly lol

swoope

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hey,

where did you get the deal on the shell?

beers

nycgps

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i think it has something to do with my premix.

my car has no problem no rough idle. drives fine and pulls strong.

meh, those plugs are out of my car already, HKS in.

stock plugs are dirt cheap, at least the leading plugs are, I got 6, so from now on Im gonna change my plugs every 10 K miles. I want the best performance outa my 8 as much as possible.

nycgps

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BJs wholesale

I dont think they have it anymore, regular price I think is 19.99 or 20.99 for 6 quart. last month they had like a 5 bux rebate for each cases, you can even fillout the rebates online.

I got my rebates back already

swoope

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how much oil does you car burn.. mine uses about a qt every 3k miles... if yours uses a lot you might back down on the pre mix... i use about 5 oz.


beers

Cody Red

thank you sir. bringing up the K&N filter just reminded me i should give it a good cleaning as well.

swoope

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ahhhhhh,,

make sure you do not over oil it.. that causes lot and lots of problems.. and is easy to do.. sometimes less is more.

beers

nycgps

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I clean mine every 5K miles. This time was a bit overdue, @ 7500 miles.

Im gonna clean again when I reach 40K miles, which is about 2500 miles from now. to even the numbers

meh, Im not 100% sure but it should be able the same as you. or maybe more.


Oh, here is the pic of the hose. Just took it like 5 minutes ago. Same 2 piece as Agency power hose, cuz I used the 3rd one. these 2 are collecting dust.

This pic is for hitman too, so he can see what the hose looks like.

HiTMaNN

Sexy they will match my AEM intake lets get a deal worked out with them HK'ers maybe if I tell them I can speak Cantonese they will take me more seriously, until they figure out all I can say is "FIDEEELLAH"

nycgps

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I'll let you know via PM in a week or 2.

swoope. want these 2 for now ?? they're clean and sexy ~~~

if not Im gonna post it in For sale section.

HiTMaNN

Thank you


OK BACK TO TOPIC CHECK YOUR EFFING SPARK PLUGS... That is all

Razz1

Running too much premix and not reving it high enough.

You are runnining richer than a stock 8 without premix.

nycgps

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I'll cut it down to 4 oz from now.

Damn, I took it out for a 50 miles drive. Ahh, I actually love the feeling of the new plugs more than ever ! It feels like I just got the car .... AHHHHHH !

my plugs sure looks butt ugly

Gonna cut it down to 4 oz. hehe ......

nycgps

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Just found this pic, a pic with Billion hose installed in my car, the 3rd piece from the Water jacket to Engine itself. but as you can see in the picture, I cut the hose in 1/2 so I can install the water temp sensor adapter. The *more Blue* hose down there is the Agency power hose.

Startl_Respons

Man be careful you don't screw your car up. You are doing so many things to it that I'm sure a flooding is in the near future.

And I am quite surprised that a connoisseur such as yourself would use Shell oil.

swoope

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his car is like mine, not capable of flooding...


beers

nycgps

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Well, it saids *Full Synthetic Formula* on the bottle, fits my standard.

you know what that means to me? it means "use me ! Im the one and only thing u'll ever need" There you go.

Like I said I still have RP, Im not throwing them away. @ 2.5 per quart for Full synthetic (Shell), Hell I can change them out every 1.5 K miles without hurting my piggy bank. It wont last long, I have only 4 quarts left. Then Im gonna start using RP again, oh yea, 2 days ago I was at Strauss auto, they were doing a sale of Mobil1 , 1 Gallon bottle for 18 bux I think. Thats not bad IMO. maybe I should go get some while they still have the sale.

Some people can do a lot of things at once. I make sure everything is fine before I move on to my next target. that probably explains why my car has yet to flood. Im not even afraid to use the HKS plugs. notice that it has no gaps on them, same design as the original Renesis plugs.

Meh, I might flood one day, but just not today, not yesterday, not for the past 2 yrs and 7 months of ownership. hmm I doubt that I will have any in the future. and I shut it off cold like nutz.

oh about the doing a lot of things, that pic up there, the hose, I took it couple months ago, after I came back from my Asia trip.

*high five*

Aye, My engine got this *Anti-Flooding* problem. why ?