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Old 07-16-2022, 10:07 PM
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About 30 years ago I bought a new set of spark plugs for my daily driver, it was a turbocharged 4 cylinder import. I took whatever plugs in the correct heat range they happened to have in stock at my local auto parts store and picked up some new plug wires at the same time.

The car started missing and lost power whenever it got on the boost, if I backed off the throttle it would smooth out and run normally. I just got used to driving it like that, staying out of the boost.

After a while I decided to swap out what turned out to be junk ND plugs for some NGK plugs and it was back to running like it did before.

The brand of spark plugs you use really does matter.

I haven’t heard anything good about Champion plugs other than the cool looking stickers they used to send you in the mail if you asked for them back in the ‘60s.

I’d get a set of NGK plugs in there ASAP.

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