Platinum plugs vs Iridium
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Re: Platinum plugs vs Iridium (Tobal)
platinum for performance purposes is bad. platinum is used for long life and 100K mile tune-ups.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by www.ngksparkplugs.com »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Platinum spark plugs last much longer than conventional spark plugs and perform more consistently over the course of their service life.
Iridium is a precious, silver-white metal and one of the densest materials found on earth. The natural properties of Iridium offered NGK the opportunity to create one of the world's finest spark plugs. The result are spark plugs that require less voltage to spark, burns fuel more efficiently, sparks at leaner air/fuel mixtures, and delivers higher horsepower and better gas mileage. </TD></TR></TABLE>
in summary, platinum=longer tune-up intervals, iridium=higher performance
i put platinums in mine once, and they caused the car to shudder at low rpms.
read more at http://www.ngksparkplugs.com
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by www.ngksparkplugs.com »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Platinum spark plugs last much longer than conventional spark plugs and perform more consistently over the course of their service life.
Iridium is a precious, silver-white metal and one of the densest materials found on earth. The natural properties of Iridium offered NGK the opportunity to create one of the world's finest spark plugs. The result are spark plugs that require less voltage to spark, burns fuel more efficiently, sparks at leaner air/fuel mixtures, and delivers higher horsepower and better gas mileage. </TD></TR></TABLE>
in summary, platinum=longer tune-up intervals, iridium=higher performance
i put platinums in mine once, and they caused the car to shudder at low rpms.
read more at http://www.ngksparkplugs.com
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Re: Platinum plugs vs Iridium (S8P-tuner)
S8P-tuner, you must feel like im stocking you... 
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Re: Platinum plugs vs Iridium (10K2HVN)
yeah, dude...back off! 
from personal experience, i've never had problems with ngk stuff...bosch platinums, while i'm sure they are good in german cars, did nothing but bad things for my civic.
also, i'm not arguing the legitimacy of the dyno sheets you posted, but you do know that all stats can be skewed in one way or another, right? ever hear of that stupid "supercharger" for any car for something like $50? take a dyno graph of one car without it in one gear, take the dyno graph of the same car with the "supercharger" in another gear...sure, more horsepower, but more than it would have had in that gear anyway?
besides, i put enough faith in honda to choose the right brands of plugs for me. NGK or NipponDenso...
from personal experience, i've never had problems with ngk stuff...bosch platinums, while i'm sure they are good in german cars, did nothing but bad things for my civic.
also, i'm not arguing the legitimacy of the dyno sheets you posted, but you do know that all stats can be skewed in one way or another, right? ever hear of that stupid "supercharger" for any car for something like $50? take a dyno graph of one car without it in one gear, take the dyno graph of the same car with the "supercharger" in another gear...sure, more horsepower, but more than it would have had in that gear anyway?
besides, i put enough faith in honda to choose the right brands of plugs for me. NGK or NipponDenso...
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Re: Platinum plugs vs Iridium (S8P-tuner)
i had Bosch Platinums before, had no problems, i like them. Have 2 sets of NGK's since..im gonna go Bosch next time..but thats just me.
..hope you werent using the Platinum+4's..those are horible (for Honda's)!
..hope you werent using the Platinum+4's..those are horible (for Honda's)!
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