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Did you research the ecoboost before buying? Do you even understand how it works? Honest questions here.
When I bought my SVT Raptor, I made the choice because I didn’t want to fight through the ecoboost headaches. Sadly, you all are discussing all of the reasons I chose not to buy an ecoboost.
Ok back on topic.
Brisk offers
Brisk Silver Racing RR14YS
This is one heat range colder than stock and is in fact a silver plug. It will have a great propensity to dissipate heat and reduce knock.
Me thinks if you can decrease knock with the plugs.... the knock sensor is going to allow the truck to run a little hotter on the timing.
Me then thinks you’ll have a little more horsepower for play.
I may have to experiment.
11 bucks a plug.
this is a little intriguing. My ZX14 uses iridium plugs with a change interval of 7500 miles. It’s n/a but very high compression.
At first, I thought it was a misprint but nope. I swapped them at 7500, no small feat because there’s only about 3 inches clearance between the top of the engine and the frame. Surely, some svelte, petite female kawasaki factory work could get her tiny hand in there, but for average and above US humans, not so much. They include a special tool to accomplish this feat.
To my surprise, the new plugs immediately made a noticeable performance difference, and 2 mpg better across the next several tanks.
If the iridiums are durable, how much durability would we give up by going to copper or Silver here? And then, of course, how much do tuned trucks give up?
I think you’re going to have to take one for the team, Guy...
Per Brisk
They last 15-20k miles in a tuned application.
That’s a bit of a pain in the neck. That’s new plugs every year though I guess if I break it down.
I may give the silvers a go.
Any which way you go, spark plugs on an ecoboost regardless of tune need changed at least every 30k miles.