A Spark Plug Worth 5 HP ?

[CAJUN C4]

How would you like approx. 5 H.P. from a Plug Change.Check out the "Spark Plug Dyno Shoot Out".

Fire Power - Street Thunder

 

[nelson84]

It is all BS, first it was the splitfire plug that gives you 5 hp, then it was the Bosch plugs gives you 5 hp now this plug???????????? So it should give you like 15 hp over the gm stock plug.

Save your money it is a scam.

 

[vetteoz]

Save your money it is a scam.

Plug test results look more comprehensive than the ones for the Renegade intake and you bought one of those; sight unseen

 

[1963SS]

This defy's all electrical logic. You won't get three sparks from three electrodes. Electricity wil follow the path of least resistance. One of the electrodes will fire until it wears down a little and then another will be the shortest. It will fire until it wears down and then the next, etc. You will still have one spark per firing event just the same as any other plug.

I once went through a JC Whitney catalog and found that if I bought enough of the gas saving items (you know, save 20%, this saves 10%, this magnet saves 15%, etc), It would have cost me $165.00 to save 120% of my fuel. So for every five gallons I bought, the car would make six. I could have sold the other gallon and made quite a profit over the period of one year. Spark plug horsepower??.......same principal.

 

[gmjunkie]

Plug test results look more comprehensive than the ones for the Renegade intake and you bought one of those; sight unseen

 

[warren s]

OK....so lets say its true....5 hp more....

Thats .002 seconds faster in the 1/4......WEEEEEEE!!!

 

[Itshakes]

Spark Plugs

We got 5 more HP on my son's '68 Camaro, by indexing the plugs. It was proven on the dyno. We got another 5 HP by switching to 5w30 Mobil I! These are proven results-The engine is a 406 ci small block, with Dart heads, and original Z-28 factory headers. I saw the numbers myself!

 

[TedC]

Isn't TPIS the same company who devloped the air foil? Would of preferred this spark plug test completed on a stock engine on a dyno and include the stock AC Delco plug as the baseline plug. I'm sure there are some diffrences based on plug design, but 5 HP on a 385 HP engine is around 1%. I've run stock AC Delcos and AC Rapidfires on L98s, and prefer the Rapidfires because of the coating that prevents rust. The amount of driving my vette sees, they will not be replaced for over a decade.

 

[vetteoz]

Thats .002 seconds faster in the 1/4......WEEEEEEE!!!

I have won races on less

 

[boomdriver]

Isn't TPIS the same company who devloped the air foil? Would of prefer this spark plug test completed on a stock engine on a dyno and include the stock AC Delco plug as the baseline plug. I'm sure there are some diffrences based on plug design, but 5 HP on a 385 HP engine is around 1%. I've run stock AC Delcos and AC Rapidfires on L98s, and prefer the Rapidfires because of the coating that prevents rust. The amount of driving my vette sees, they will not be replaced for over a decade.

If so, then the whole spark plug program falls under suspecion and to me, smells of marketing and not performance.
Anybody can make some kind of tuning change on what they've got and find 5hp. Unless of course you have one of those airfoils...then you subtract 5 in real HP and another 10 for being gulable.

 

[nelson84]

Okay I admit it I bought the plugs, stupid hype. And yes I bought the intake.

 

[93Rubie]

plug test results look more comprehensive than the ones for the renegade intake and you bought one of those; sight unseen

oh, burn!!!

 

[Schrade]

5 HP spark plugs? If one's broken, you might MISS 5 HP. Otherwise, it's a can of

 

[nelson84]

Where can a guy get a bottle of that snake oil? What does it produce 15 hp? Now we are talkin air foil territory.

 

[Vettehead Mikey]

Any Canadian Tire. They've got a whole aisle full of them. Just follow Bubba into the store, he'll head straight there and stock up.

 

[Schrade]

Air foil will make a difference on some engines.

Throw a rock in the pond. The wave starts going outward, except the wave part that hits the 'No Fishing' signpost sticking out of the water. When the wave hits it, the wave comes BACKWARD.

If there's more waves coming, it's only a 'small' problem with overall wave motion.

Put an air foil on the signpost, the wave gets cut easier, and doesn't come backward.

With a blower, or turbo, and air foil will make a much bigger difference. On vacuum aspirated motors (normal induction), it won't show till maybe full throttle.

 

[Edmond]

I thought that all a plug needed to do was spark enough to get the fuel to burn?

Aren't the iridium plugs that come in new 'Vette's mainly so they last longer than the old plugs? It's a thing about less maintenance, right?

As for oil giving more HP on the dyno, I don't know about that. Maybe if the old oil in there was worn and you did back to back old oil vs. fresh oil it would make a difference. And that's assuming it was the same weight.

 

[vetteoz]

Air foil will make a difference on some engines.

Problem with most " instant HP ' adders is that while they may be based on sound scientific / engineering principles whether you will see any gains remains debatable
Exp;
A smooth TB coupler will have proven less restriction than the stock corrugated one but having 1000 cfm flow potential is little benefit on a engine that is only sucking 650 cfm WOT
Ditto the 58mm TB on stock(ish ) engine

 

[catbert]

Plug test results look more comprehensive than the ones for the Renegade intake and you bought one of those; sight unseen

He shoots - He scores! :bash

 

[nelson84]

He shoots - He scores! :bash

Ya thats right he shoots and scores on the US net gold CANADA!!!!!!!!!