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Re: Spark plugs

To: list <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>, Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Subject: Re: Spark plugs
From: David Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:12:42 -0400
Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com> writes:

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I use Champion RN-9YC in my 70 TR6, and Champion RN-12YC in
my 1974 TR6.  The RN12YC is a hotter plug.  From what I have
been able to find in various literature, this is the factory-
suggested configuration:

  Champion N9Y  -- 1969-1972
           N12Y -- 1973-1976

Feel free to substitute your favorite brand of plug (NGK,
Splitfire, whatever).

I don't honestly know why the lower compression engines want
the hotter plug.  Maybe somebody else out there that knows
can explain...
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They probably use a hotter plug because they can, lower compression
ratio and all that.  Also, they probably switched when they realized
that the MGB uses N9Y's. ;-)

Dave Massey
St. Louis, MO

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