AbrahamLincoln
Dedicated LVC Member
I was doing some spirited driving today manual shifting around some backroads. I pushed granpa car harder than I normally do, doing some nice counter steers (drifting a bit) etc. Well after I pulled up to my house I smelled gas towards the rear of the car sorta where those black fuel whatever lines are in that mount inside the rear bumper. Is that normal? I would say either it was unused or recycled gas is my guess? Pretty much my question is what do those black plastic lines in the bumper do? I also have 103 autoites gapped at about .40 currently so that could be a reason im running a bit rich, but the plugs show a pretty clean burn... maybe a little uneven on the electrodes because of the close gap, but nothing too substantial. I'm not running the juice most of the time so im debating whether or not to put different plugs in?
running lms chip - 160 T stat fans coming on at 175, it runs pretty cold normally never leaving the L on normal even if im romping on it, itll just barely go above between the A and the L in street driving. So I assumed that the one step colder would benefit NA driving, but with this gas smell and sometimes the cats smelling like rotton eggs ehh im getting a feeling something is off. I'm not getting any CEL's and it doesnt stumble at all. As others run two step colders, i know geno runs stocks @ .048 gap right?
I ran the 103's gapped at stock at about .054 and with the chip in their the car acted funky longer revs and stumbling, with out the chip is was fine.
let me know what you think, trying to tune this beast... I spray pretty regulary but as I don't know if its enough to warrant keeping those plugs in? Or if those plugs are perfectly fine? IDK! I'm not sure how to go about tuning this thing relating to colder plugs vs fouling vs spark plug gap.
ive also been tightening my plugs hand tight, a buddy of mine whos a tech said i should snug em up with the ratchet but I read a bunch of horror stories about messing up the threads in the heads so i always just do em as much as i can by hand? maybe not enough torque on the plugs possibly as well?
running lms chip - 160 T stat fans coming on at 175, it runs pretty cold normally never leaving the L on normal even if im romping on it, itll just barely go above between the A and the L in street driving. So I assumed that the one step colder would benefit NA driving, but with this gas smell and sometimes the cats smelling like rotton eggs ehh im getting a feeling something is off. I'm not getting any CEL's and it doesnt stumble at all. As others run two step colders, i know geno runs stocks @ .048 gap right?
I ran the 103's gapped at stock at about .054 and with the chip in their the car acted funky longer revs and stumbling, with out the chip is was fine.
let me know what you think, trying to tune this beast... I spray pretty regulary but as I don't know if its enough to warrant keeping those plugs in? Or if those plugs are perfectly fine? IDK! I'm not sure how to go about tuning this thing relating to colder plugs vs fouling vs spark plug gap.
ive also been tightening my plugs hand tight, a buddy of mine whos a tech said i should snug em up with the ratchet but I read a bunch of horror stories about messing up the threads in the heads so i always just do em as much as i can by hand? maybe not enough torque on the plugs possibly as well?
