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RE: Splitfire plugs
By John - 06/05/2001 9:40:26 PM; IP 142.177.53.141
I agree that they won't do much, except perhaps last a little longer as the "bendy electrode" has more surface area. But an interesting note...I have an old sparkplug tester/cleaner. The tester works as follows: A constant spark is generated across the gap, the you slowly increase the air pressure around the plug to see if the spark breaks down before you reach the typical pressure found in cylinders. The interesting thing is that as the air pressure increases, the spark changes from what you see when checking a plug in free air to having a rather large blue corona around it. It apears almost like a ball of blue fire that extends to the threaded casing of the plug. Kinda throws indexing your plugs into the "waste of time" file. Anyway, this "ball of fire" seems to be everwhere, so electrical continuity, or maybe "current flow" must extend over quite a portion of the surface of the "bendy electrode" (I like that term, as a previous contributor so aptly described it...chuckle). Therefore, the only advantge to a splitfire plug seems to be that it will last a little bit longer because it will take longer for "erosion" to wear out this more massive electrode. Now...how's that for a weird theory?
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 RE: Split-fire spark plugs? -- richard, 06/04/2001
 RE: Split-fire spark plugs? -- matt, 06/08/2001
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 Split-fires? -- Orin, 06/05/2001
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RE: Splitfire plugs -- John, 06/05/2001
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 Won't lower even 1/4 HP! Change as needed... -- Dan Davis, 06/09/2001
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 All mfgrs have cross reference charts and ... -- Dan Davis, 06/09/2001
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=6758&Reply=6636><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor6758" onclick="return false;">RE: Bosch is looking to increase market share.</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Dave Shoe, <i>06/09/2001</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=6758', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor6758') }); </script>  RE: Bosch is looking to increase market share. -- Dave Shoe, 06/09/2001
 duraspark -- ANT, 06/09/2001
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 Ps: -- John, 06/09/2001
 RE: Mercury Outboard plugs -- HighSpeed, 06/10/2001
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