LAST EDITED ON 02-Jan-01 AT 07:18 PM (PST)

First off, I ...



...pulled all four of my plugs. Then i took some pictures.








These plugs have been in my car for about eight months, and the turbo for about a week. Do they look okay ? Is red/brown a sign of detonation? (light grey, light brown, tan.. okay, right?) In a few days i'm going to pull one of the NGK 1283's i installed (the new designation for the BKR7E-11) and check it, too, to see if there are signs of exessive wear. My EGT temps stay fairly low, but my car just falls on it's face if i romp on the throttle. I did it tonight, and i heard several good, clean POP sounds. but they sound like backfiring, like the valves are opening too soon or something. This is at WOT, in any gear, at boost. Maybe, with the aid of a long microphone cord and my nifty Toshiba Tecra 750 laptop, i can get a sound clip of these noises for you guys to think about. Anyway... I'm really starting to think that the fuel pump isn't sealled properly and the damn thing is having trouble maintaining fuel pressure. I filled my tank up tonight after i replaced the plugs, and heard a nice hissing noise coming from back there, under the whine of the fuel pump. Sounded like it was blowing fuel back into the tank past the seal at the pump. Dunno.
-DarkOne
I'm so bad, i should be in detention.