to get a good read you must kill(at speed) the motor and push the clutch in at the same time ,coast to the side of the road an remove the plug.the black you see on the plug is from low speed running....you wanna see the plug right after it ran at high speed, not after you drove it home.. CT.
don't look rich to me....however if it came out of my ride,i'd be pissed, cause it would mean someone stole my NGK plugs and put those bosch P>O>S> plugs in just mt 2 cents
Dosen't look one bit oil fouled to me, if that's what you're fishing for. Looks pretty good to me actually, almost too new to see any color. Chris
Looks pretty good to me. My old malibu would turn them completely black... like a thick coat of black enamel that would chip off with a small pick. That was on 2 different cylinders, and it barely smoked at all. FWIW, my oil problem was do to wallowed out valve guides. Nearest I can figure, a couple of them got dry because I had water boiling in the motor once too often... Ever heard of cutting the ground electrode back from the center? Read about it on a mustang board... You just cut the electrode back to where it's even with the outside edge of the center electrode, and gap it from there. Supposed to expose the spark more, for cleaner burning and more power. It shortens the life of the plug a bit, but for performance, who cares?
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