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Title: Anything to it?
Post by: Dare2BSquare on September 03, 2007, 07:10:42 PM

Any of you try side gapping your spark plugs. Does it do anything worth messing with?

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: dunklervogel on September 04, 2007, 01:17:28 AM

Haven't done it but have heard it works.  Since plugs are pretty cheap it seems worth a shot.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: Jeffy on September 04, 2007, 09:25:38 AM

I had to look it up.  :lol:  It seems worth a shot.  Spark plugs are cheap.  I probably won't bother since I'm already running .030" over stock.  According to what I read you would gap to .025" or .010" under the stock gap.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: Jesse-James on September 04, 2007, 12:18:36 PM

I had to look it up too. Here's a decent link....

Side Gapping (http://performanceunlimited.com/documents/plugsidegapping.html)

I'm about to change plugs so I think I'll do this and report back.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: jfrabat on September 04, 2007, 01:28:59 PM

Quote from: Jesse-James on September 04, 2007, 12:18:36 PM

I'm about to change plugs so I think I'll do this and report back.

Let me know how taht goes...  I may do the same on my next saprkplug change!  And thanks for the link; I also would have had to look that one up!

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: Rokcrwln on September 04, 2007, 07:38:55 PM

This sounds similar to spark plug indexing, except with indexing you don't have to worry about ruining a good plug and a set of indexing rings can last a long time. 

Indexing can take some time (trial and error) to get all four plugs lined up in the right position, but I noticed a little crisper acceleration.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: Jesse-James on September 04, 2007, 08:10:32 PM

Quote from: jfrabat on September 04, 2007, 01:28:59 PM

Let me know how taht goes...  I may do the same on my next saprkplug change!  And thanks for the link; I also would have had to look that one up!

Will do, I have the plugs and I'll be cutting them tonight at work. Probably put them in late this week.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: SKI BOY on September 05, 2007, 10:49:00 AM

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Indexing can take some time (trial and error) to get all four plugs lined up in the right position, but I noticed a little crisper acceleration.

Found that same site, looks pretty easy to side gap them. Thought of the same thing on the indexing of the plugs, didn't know they had rings for that though. Thanks for the tip, I'm at 65k miles, so plan to try both of these ideas out!!

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: dexetr30 on September 06, 2007, 05:07:52 PM

Wow, never heard of doing that. Makes sense I guess. I'll be following this thread to see how it goes.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: Jesse-James on October 06, 2007, 06:02:50 PM

Well, they've been in for a few weeks and I have noticed nothing.

Title: Re: Anything to it?
Post by: DodgeMudder on December 01, 2007, 05:08:23 PM

Any updates on how this has worked for anyone running them?  I'm going to be getting new plugs before too long and was wondering if this was worth doing.