How to ungap these shitty plugs

[justinsstang]

some good needle nose pliers will pull it back out, had to do it when i switched to HT0 plugs. Just be careful its really not that hard.

I had to call a few different stores but advanced or autozone does carry the HT0 Plugs.

I tried pliers and it was scuffing up the strap soo bad =X
I have them in now btw, car runs but it's having problems. Hoping the plugs aren't contributing. It's running lean so might not have anything to do with it. Soon as I go above half throttle the car cuts out lol, stock could whoop me right now in a race (not that i'd be racing it right now).
Found out you can order them pregapped from brenspeed, wish I had done that.

 

[Kylar]

I tried pliers and it was scuffing up the strap soo bad =X
I have them in now btw, car runs but it's having problems. Hoping the plugs aren't contributing. It's running lean so might not have anything to do with it. Soon as I go above half throttle the car cuts out lol, stock could whoop me right now in a race (not that i'd be racing it right now).
Found out you can order them pregapped from brenspeed, wish I had done that.

What did you gap them to?

 

[RED09GT]

I've always wondered what would happen if you cut half of the grounding strap off of one of these. The flame is heavily shrouded by the bulk of the groundstrap with this design. Performance plugs usually have a rounded cut on the ground strap and the electrode is usually only half covered on a decent plug as well.

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[702GT]

I take about an hour to gap all my plugs. Just did it tonight for my procharger build. I take an hour for 8 plugs because years ago I read all the nightmare spark plug threads and knew ahead of time it's right the first time or prepare for hell. So I do tiny turns and stop and check gap after each little turn. The bitch is when you're right there but its not perfect. Then OCD kicks in or you say fuck it and some are off .001-.003. I wont go outside of .003 personally. I like them all within .002 of each other.

 

[Redrocket06]

I tried pliers and it was scuffing up the strap soo bad =X
I have them in now btw, car runs but it's having problems. Hoping the plugs aren't contributing. It's running lean so might not have anything to do with it. Soon as I go above half throttle the car cuts out lol, stock could whoop me right now in a race (not that i'd be racing it right now).
Found out you can order them pregapped from brenspeed, wish I had done that.

This is why I use a vise and put a soft metal between the jaws and the ground strap. The vise give you more control and the soft metal will scuff and distort before the ground strap.
Missfire will show lean, too large gap will have blowout, dropping a plug or pushing on the electrode can cause a plug to be worthless. I now check for loose electrodes when I check/change plugs.