Hey guys,

I have d16y8 turbo'd, 9.6:1 compression, 7lbs of boost with ngk bkr7e plugs gapped @ .030.

My car has been tuned... When my car is idleing(@ 900rpms) sometimes it starts to go down and then it dies(unless i push on the gas pedal). I'm going to adjust my plug gap to .035-.037.....i think mine gap is too tight right now.

NGK says for every 50hp should lower gap by .004.

I think this will help my car when idleing....just want to see if anyone has experienced this.

Thanks.

DAN

 

That will NOT help your idle.
You need to get your tuner to fix that. Proly IAC issue. What EMS are you running?
.37 is too large of a gap with the stock ignition system and you could end up blowing out the spark.

 

you are contradicting yourself when you say you are going to adjust to .035 when you said NGK says to lower it. lowering the gap means lowering the number. your plugs should be gapped to .028-.032 inches

like white smoke said, your idle is bad because of something else

 

No when i said lowering it......i meant lowering it from the stock setting of .044(1.1mm)...sorry to be unclear.

DAN

 

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i see. well just gap them to .028-.030

 

Thats what they are at now (.030) i'm gonna raise it to .035.

DAN

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not listening...
That’s why you take you car to a tuner and are not doing it yourself.
Its not going to change you idle bro. But what do I know

 

I increased my gap to .035.......i drove it around for an 30 mins.....let it idle for 10 mins........no more problems.

My car idles like a million bucks(just like stock). Also car starts up right away after it's been driven for a while......usually would have to crank it 5 times and push down the peddle to get it going. Now i just turn the key and it starts perfectly....and idles perfectly.

I'm happy

Peace.

 

hahaha the noob knows more than you guys!!!!!! j/k

 

Well thanks for all your advice......but for now the car idles great.

Take care guys.

DAN

 

Damn, that's fucked up bro. noob owns you!

 

i had the same thing happen to me. I was runnin about .028 and it idled like ****. Changed it to stock gap and runs fine now