Project RS

[ScottyB]

Great writeup Scotty. 12,000 miles in six months? Damn that's a lot. What is your commute?

thanks -- yeah i commute roughly 45 miles a day. we also take my car for all the 1-4 hour trips, since we try to drive the Xterra as little as possible (i think it sees maybe 5000 miles a year).

Atlanta has terrible public trans so everyone drives a long commute, pretty much.

Good info Scotty! I find it interesting your car didn't like the copper plugs. I had some iridium/platinums in my car and I swear the car idled smoother and ran better with the copper plugs.

no you are right on, coppers tend to respond better to forced induction than iridiums or other long-lasting plugs. i had platinums in my old 1.8T and with coppers in it, there was a noticable positive difference.

i put coppers in thinking i might be able to get some better results and it was not a good choice. they were pretty rough the last 2k miles of their life. for this engine in NA form the iridiums are doing well.

sorry, but the NA's are super easy to change plugs in :wink: all that is required is to remove the washer resiviour and the airbox. the top of the engine is really exposed. i think the second time i changed plugs it took me 20 minutes, while i was farting around with changing the wires too.

Although, I got my test back recently though with some not exactly comforting results, I just haven't gotten around to posting it up yet.

whoa...yeah post that up when you get the chance, alot of knowledgable people here and we might be able to help you out.