spark plugs for yer b5 s-fo

[The Brice]

Re: spark plugs for yer b5 s-fo

Don't be such a poofter Ryan, just unclip the top of your airbox and move the reservoir over and the rest is easy (relatively) just don't drop any bolts from your coilpack down into the engine or finding and retrieving it can be a real pain in the ace, truuust me!

[PRY4SNO]

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Sure, sure... you diseased bastid.

[R_Ethug]

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this is actually my 4th boost gauge in this car

1st.. stewart warner
2nd.. vdo
3rd.. awe ver1
4th.. awe ver2

i'm done with them now hahaha

[Smarty39]

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haha Ryan, they are a b!tch...makes me appreciate doing mine with the engine out and nothing in the way lol

[PRY4SNO]

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I kind of think it's funny that you installed a boost gauge instead of swapping spark plugs.

I want to put my VEI/Podi into my car but stop before I begin because the project looks daunting and time consuming. Plus I'd be doing it alone and if I eff it up I'm hooped.

[R_Ethug]

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i changed the rest of the driver side bank took like 10 minutes after you remove the coolant tank screws..

i'll do the passenger side tommorow because you have to remove the airbox.. but drove it around tonight and works great so far hahahaha

[bigbadboss101]

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Haha too funny. What ever happened to those engines where one can change plugs in 10 minutes?

[R_Ethug]

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well first off the 2.7t was designed by nazis and the devil for the retarded placement of everything covering up everything hahaha

that being said i changed the plug on the front driver side and the old plug spark area was the size of a pube hair lol so i put one of my new plugs in and started her up and blamo no bad sounds so good to go now to do the other 5 and remove half the engine to get them

[R_Ethug]

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haha i went to change mine this afternoon and said F it and installed my new awe boost gauge instead
why is crap blocking all the coilpacks lol

plus i need to get a big extension for my torque wrench or buy a 3/8s drive tq wrench as mine is 1/2" for doing wheels

[The_Jerbel]

Re: spark plugs for yer b5 s-fo

I run one heat range cooler. It all depends on the intake air temperature. Your IC's, meth injection, etc will affect what plug you should use...

Stage 3 is even harder because of the bigger inlet pipes, you have to remove them to access the plugs on cyl's 1 and 4.

[ridelikeme]

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It's certainly not 10 minutes on a stage 3 2.7t car. I'd like to see some data with actual performance gains from copper plugs...

haha well ten minutes sounded good in my head.. on the ol' 1.8T its ten or less. ill try to find the link for the write-up. for our climate im not sure a BKR8E would be required either.. but when you think about it, lots of the guys doing the tuning are in arizona, nevada or Cali'.. i dont remember the last time it hit 120 degrees in Calgary, and i also cant remember the last time it hit -40 in arizona, cali or nevada

[R-Audi]

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It's certainly not 10 minutes on a stage 3 2.7t car. I'd like to see some data with actual performance gains from copper plugs...

Certainly not ten minutes on a 2.7T (regardless of stage!) .. ha ha. Maybe for the 1.8T


Ive never heard of anyone running two stages colder... at least in regards to Stage 3/3+ A4's or S4's.. (GT28rs-A4, K04-S4) My A4 ran one cooler, while I am on stock temperature on my S4, as suggested by APR.

[The_Jerbel]

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It's certainly not 10 minutes on a stage 3 2.7t car. I'd like to see some data with actual performance gains from copper plugs...

[ridelikeme]

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If you are stock go with NGK BKR6E, if you are fairly well modded go with 7E, if you are stage III go with 8E. i will find the direct link, but i read something about plugs written by a GIAC tuner on one of teh Audi sites. you are going to replace teh plugs more often with copper, but the conductance alone outweighs the ten minute pain of changing plugs.. not only that but you can buy 3 sets of copper lpugs for the cost of one set of platinum or iridium

EDIT: best gap .3

[R_Ethug]

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thats a good read! i guess i should have tried to source the 7es since i'm a stage2+ but oh well i'll see how these work until the fall oil change then swap out for the 7s.

considering i haven't changed my plugs in nearly 4 years i'm sure i'll notice the butt dyno difference haahha