Thread: Pulstar Iridium Spark Plugs

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

wow, i love how you guys love to throw words in people's mouths. I don't believe I ever said that these plugs were amazing, or that any of your opinions suck. I simply stated that I got these, these are the results I've seen so far. I love how you guys take a few words and just run with it. I've done what I did to my car cause "I FELT LIKE IT" for various reasons. Can't know how something is going to work until you try it. So to most of you, shove it. All I've done is say what I was going to do, did it, and told you the results I've seen. If anything, you should be thanking me if the results I've gotten aren't large enough for you to consider purchasing this product.

this forum, and the # of idiots never ceases to amaze me. We are all here to get info on our cars, and try to help others out with info we have. So get over yourselves, take the info, if you like it, that's fine. If you don't, that's fine too, but unless you think someone is going to kill themselves by modifying their car, then don't bash them around.

YOU were the one who threw out you were an engineering student like it somehow made you better or more knowledgable than everyone else. You were also the one who claimed that somehow spark plugs have changed your final drive ratio because you had "decreased RPM's at crusing speed"

Considering that speed and RPM are directly proportional in each gear that is downright impossible.

And you have no proof that you got increased fuel mileage because of the plugs. It likely has more to to with the difference in winter and summer blends of fuel, orr the fact that you changed from old worn plugs to new plugs.

Keep trying to make yourself seem smarter. We'll continue to laugh and point at how you spent $75 on a gimmick.

How is Speed & RPMs directly related? If you push the accelerator, your RPMs jump but your actual speed hasn't really increased..... Also, if you are at a full stop, and in neutral. If you rev the engine, RPMs increase but your speed is zero...just saying...Also, I only noted that I was an engineering student as a fact, i never said that made me better than anyone.

To my knowledge, though I don't know alot about engines. Isn't RPMs a direct number from the number of mechanical cycles (revolutions) of the crankshaft in the engine? Meaning how fast the engine is working, not really how fast your car is going. Assuming that is correct (like I said, I'm not sure), wouldn't it make sense that RPMs decreased if engine efficiency increased (efficiency as in how well the fuel is burned, not MPGs)?

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

How is Speed & RPMs directly related? If you push the accelerator, your RPMs jump but your actual speed hasn't really increased.....

Well...if your pushing the pedal...then your speed is increasing in gear.

Any load on the motor is going to increase your speed, bruh.

Originally Posted by bluegtp91

Well...if your pushing the pedal...then your speed is increasing in gear.

Any load on the motor is going to increase your speed, bruh.

meaning RPMs would be more related to gear speed than actual speed?

Meaning unless your transmission blows wang...or your in Neutral...your going to be increasing your speed...even if it is at a non-noticeable rate.

Originally Posted by bluegtp91

Meaning unless your transmission blows wang...or your in Neutral...your going to be increasing your speed...even if it is at a non-noticeable rate.

agreed, but the way he said it, speed & RPMs are directly related. Maybe it's more correct to say acceleration and RPMs are related, atleast moreso than speed (velocity) and RPMs are.

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

So I've had the MSD Wires & Pulstar Iridium Plugs for around 6,000 miles now. They work pretty good so far. At first, the engine had to crank over a few extra times to start, I think it was because the engine/computer wasn't used to the changes yet. I unplugged the battery and gave the computer a reset, within a few tanks of gas everything starts and performs very well. There seems to be a little bit of increase in HP, but the thing I've noticed the most is increase MPG, and decreased RPMs at cruising speed. Originally I had about 23.0 MPG average on the computer. Now it's about 23.7MPG and that number keeps increasing slowly as time goes on.

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

All i got done with the vehicle right now is K&N Air Intake. When I get these plugs I'm gonna get MSD Wires as well. After that, most likely that only other mod will be a increased downpipe and High Flow Cat. I talked to my mechanic about the Pulstar plugs and he said that he installed some in his vechile and they noticibably increased his MPG. But that is also in a mostly stock vehicle. I don't think these plugs would work very well for highly modified vehicles. As for Iridium, since the Stock Plugs in my car are Iridiums, and they've been in there for 93,000 miles, I'd say they last/work pretty well for stock situations.

You said the PCM oh oh sorry, you said the "engine/computer" weren't used to the change? HAHA, I guess your engine has a brain now. But you contradicted yourself and sound like a complete idiot... You said it wasn't used to the changes, but then said your car has had iridiums it's whole life? The only way your FDR would be lower is if you are coasting... spark plugs have nothing to do with that unless maybe you had misfires before, which you speak nothing of. Infact nothing makes sense that you have been saying, unless you had a bunch of bad plugs beforehand and were compensating fr the lost power...OK...

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

I already do/have done all of those things, so this is only helping.

You "do done" all of those things? And you said that the plugs increased MPG's when you have no proof at all...you changed air filter etc....

Oh, and I see now iridium spark plugs are an "engine modification"... hmm I thought they were part of engine maintenance...

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

Personally, I'd check and re-gap an iridium plug at 50,000 miles - at 70k, mine were baaaarely out of gap, but my mileage was starting to hurt.

Cough cough...

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

Yeah?

Who pulls and checks the plugs on a vehicle that's running well? If there's something wrong that you can tell from plugs, plugs probably aren't your first indication.

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

If I can tell just as easily without busting out a wrench, why bother?

ALL CONTRADICTIONS...

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

Copper's melting point is lower than iridium's, yes. I guess you could get lucky and only ruin a spark plug if you set up your car wrong. I wouldn't bank on getting lucky with engine failures bad enough to vaporize copper.

Nobody said ANYTHING about vaporizing copper...

SlowNA06 is a complete A-HOLE in EVERY single thing he posts and has no idea what he is talking about.


I hate these spark plug threads... do what you want with them! Just don't make up **** saying it made your car better!

Ummm Joe.

Stop.

Originally Posted by bluegtp91

Ummm Joe.

Stop.

okee doke

Hey, Hippo, you know what's awesome about threads like this? if you dont like them to begin with, you can just choose not to read/comment on them at all. Especially if you are just going to complain and not actually add anything useful to the conversation. Also, it's put under Engine Mods, because it's something different than stock. There are quite a few people that put down their plug types or that they changed wires or small stuff like that.

Originally Posted by UCF04GPGTPCompG

Hey, Hippo, you know what's awesome about threads like this? if you dont like them to begin with, you can just choose not to read/comment on them at all. Especially if you are just going to complain and not actually add anything useful to the conversation. Also, it's put under Engine Mods, because it's something different than stock. There are quite a few people that put down their plug types or that they changed wires or small stuff like that.

True, sorry, I've just been kind of pissed lately... my car gets towed to the shop tomorrow for the weak lil' engine goin' in

Originally Posted by Hippo Machine

ALL CONTRADICTIONS...

Really? Didn't I already point out that plugs ought to be pulled when there is an indication of poor engine performance? Like, say... DECREASED GAS MILEAGE?

Frankly, re-gapping your spark plugs once every FIVE YEARS is not what I'd consider "pulling the plugs every so often," just to look at them.

Originally Posted by Hippo Machine

Nobody said ANYTHING about vaporizing copper...

I couldn't figure out a way to explain how you're not going to destroy an engine with a big chunk of copper bouncing through it after pre-detonation, except vaporization. My bad.

Originally Posted by Hippo Machine

SlowNA06 is a complete A-HOLE in EVERY single thing he posts and has no idea what he is talking about.

I'd apologize for being an a-hole, but it would be all kinds of insincere. As for not knowing what I'm talking about, well...

...my Grand Prix has always run like a champ?

Originally Posted by SlowNA06

You're right. I am an a-hole.

UGH!

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