NGK and Denso #1
Autolite, Bosch, Champion, AC Delco #2
Some obscure euro brands like Beru #3
The rest, gimmick plugs
Autolite, Bosch, Champion, AC Delco #2
Some obscure euro brands like Beru #3
The rest, gimmick plugs
Best "gimmick" plugs?
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Split fire plugs advertisement defied physics, as it showed 2 sparks at once.
Try Iridium plugs... Like NGK Laser Iridium. I bought them for a car and still ended up using factory NGK G or V powers.. whichever the Copper one in the silver box was. I think V power.
I was going to say Bosch Platinum+4. I tried to use them once. Never again.
I was going to say Bosch Platinum+4. I tried to use them once. Never again.
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I tried an E3 Diamond Fire in a push lawnmower that replaced the standard worn Champion. I didn't notice much if anything at all that a NEW Champion(correct #) would have done.
Didn't JC Whitney used to sell a spark plug that was guaranteed to fire in oil? 
I tried Denso Iridium's in the same three vehicles. They ended up in the trash too. Expensive mistake.
What about Polonium-210 infused spark plugs? Though at this point any “new old” stock would have decayed a lot at this point.
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The OP's '07 CR-V came with Denso or NGK iridium plugs. These usually last more than 120,000 miles in the K series engine.
Why change?
Why change?
No thread highjack here:
Anyone heard of "Rathium" plugs (or some such)?
A young guy mentioned them to me 2 months ago. They'd be 12 months on the market at this time (according to him).
I found nothing online.
Anyone heard of "Rathium" plugs (or some such)?
A young guy mentioned them to me 2 months ago. They'd be 12 months on the market at this time (according to him).
I found nothing online.
Why would anyone install self-proclaimed "gimmick plugs" in any vehicle?
Yeah, I either need to find a car to put them in, or they just may stay in the box forever.
Hopefully the car it's going into really did need a tune-up or new plugs.
Ruthenium spark plugs, maybe? Yes I've heard of them. Have not tried them yet.
NONE!
I do have experience with the E3's and they were terrible....and they were just a copper plug. A customer brought them for me to install in her 2002 Ws6 Trans Am. I didn't want to but did. She returned 1 week later with misfires and poor driveabilty. I had a set of Autolite double platinums on hand and stuck them in - instant good car again.
I do have experience with the E3's and they were terrible....and they were just a copper plug. A customer brought them for me to install in her 2002 Ws6 Trans Am. I didn't want to but did. She returned 1 week later with misfires and poor driveabilty. I had a set of Autolite double platinums on hand and stuck them in - instant good car again.
That’s the NGK V-Power there.
it’s actually an OEM plug on older Nissans and Hondas. Denso has a similar concept with the U-groove ground strap on their copper plugs. NGK also makes the V-notch center electrode standard on their small 2-stoke OPE plugs.
When I was growing up and my dad took me to Kragen, SplitFires were the gimmick plug of that day.
I do have experience with NGK V-Power's... it's just a groove like ntach says, hardly a big gimmick. For what it is worth, my Dakota hardly knows the difference, runs the same as platinum plugs, but they're only good for 30K or so.
Has Project Farm tried any of these?
I used Splitfires in a 1985 Escort GT, and they did work better. Meaning that they didn't seem to require constant cleaning to run good like the OE ones did.
I used Splitfires in a 1985 Escort GT, and they did work better. Meaning that they didn't seem to require constant cleaning to run good like the OE ones did.
The E3 isn't a gimmick plug. I consistently get an extra 30 minutes per tank on my lawnmower. Ive ran several tests to compare.
Project Farm actually compared a couple of the above.
Sparkplug test
Project Farm actually compared a couple of the above.
Sparkplug test
That guy does not do his tests on Vehicles, he uses farm equipment .
That should invalidate most, and I do mean almost all, of what he puts up.
They are not the same things.
