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Oct 6, 2008 | 10:06 PM

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lose power from arcing/misfire?

so after my lpp install something wasnt right, but i was dumb and took the car to race a couple of my friends. it wasnt doing as well as i had in the past, and i knew something wasnt right. turned out one of my plugs had a crack in the ceramic and was arcing and causing misfires...i just wanna know how much power i was losing from this

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Oct 6, 2008 | 10:08 PM

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Enough to where you NEED to replace that plug

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Oct 6, 2008 | 10:09 PM

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yea its replaced but i wanna know how much cuz the kid i was racing was in a mustang and he kinda kept up with me...i just wanna shut him up cuz hes the most annoying kid ever

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Oct 6, 2008 | 10:17 PM

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Just tell him he barely kept up on your seven cylinder engine.

Run him again.

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Oct 6, 2008 | 10:19 PM

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so then its a pretty significant loss of power haha

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Oct 7, 2008 | 02:16 PM

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Hell yes you loose power...... its a loss of an entire cylinder

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Oct 7, 2008 | 03:15 PM

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i told you to check your plugs cause in your first miss fire post i knew what you did. SO I TOLD YOU SO

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Oct 7, 2008 | 06:24 PM

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yeah it will make a win or lose difference...

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i told you to check your plugs cause in your first miss fire post i knew what you did. SO I TOLD YOU SO

haha youre right! fortunately it wasnt a plug wire, otherwise i woulda had to drop way more money for a new set that i dont have haha

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its all good.

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