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Old 05-30-2012, 11:34 AM
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Well it's time for plugs and wires for my truck. What ones do our trucks like? I was looking at either getting accel performance plugs or the e3 plugs.
 
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As far as plugs go, stick with Champs or Autolite plane jane coppers. As far as wires go any descent brand, I prefer Standard Motor Products brand. What ever you decide on wires do the TSB routing. http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/18-48-98/18-48-98-v8.htm
 
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I have used a lot of spark plugs & want to save you some frustration, so bare with me here. When you take a spark plug, like an e3 or plus 4 or any alleged spark plug with extra meat at the end, the meaty part will act like a glow plug instead of a spark plug & cause pre-detination. Those kind of plugs will give you hotter performance & better mileage, but over a relatively small amount of time (a year for me), they will punch holes in the pistons, causing lack of compression, necessitating a rebuild. I went through that in a V6 camry & an S10 I had before. My engine re builder found out what I did to cause that & gave me a very similar lecture. He even showed me the pistons from each of those engines. Tiny holes, no kidding. Keeping the plugs simple is best & the dodge engines love simple plugs. I did put denso iridium plugs in mine & have had no ill effect. I would say that if you want hotter plug performance, use copper plugs with a MSD module or a jacobs module if you can find one. Make certain to use plug wire spacers to keep them from looking like spaghetti too or that could in time cause a lack of predictability for your performance. Most importantly, don't get caught up in the advertising hype on performance TV shows, those guys are paid to push crap like E3.
 
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Old 05-30-2012, 05:23 PM
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I put AutoLite Copper's in mine, run's great.
 
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NGK V-Power here. Still copper and IMO better then Champion or Autolight.
 
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Back when I had my 2001, I used Autolite 3923s (a little colder) or NGK V-powers. The Champion ones should work well too.
 
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Get the champion coppers at like 1.50 a piece and call it a day
 
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^^^ Me too.
 
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Originally Posted by kejobe
NGK V-Power here. Still copper and IMO better then Champion or Autolight.
x2 i seemed to have picked up about 2mpg swapping from champion to ngk in my 93. i run ngk v-power ones in all my trucks and they run great.
 
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I run 3923's as well. Work great and last a long time.
 


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