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Old 11-12-2002, 05:46 AM
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Originally posted by westcoaststyle
cool, I'll try swapping those and see what happens. Any other ideas?
Only other thing to look at is your fuel pressure in that situation. Fuel pressure should remain fairly constant at the fuel rail, shouldn't deviate too much up or down from the stock pressure ~36psi.
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Old 11-12-2002, 06:27 AM
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Originally posted by 1stGenCRXer
Only other thing to look at is your fuel pressure in that situation. Fuel pressure should remain fairly constant at the fuel rail, shouldn't deviate too much up or down from the stock pressure ~36psi.
Well, I was running an ITR fpr and it seemed to be running too rich so I got the B&M gauge and FPR. I put the gauge on first to see what the ITR FPR was pushing out and it was 50 PSI

So, I used my stock D15B7 FPR (so I didn't ruin the ITR FPR) and put the B&M FPR on. I leaned it down to about 38 PSI, but I dropped my compression down to 9.5:1 so do you think I should lower the pressure even more?
Old 11-12-2002, 06:52 AM
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have you done a compression test to make sure that you ahve good compression? also checked the ignition system?
Old 11-12-2002, 09:38 AM
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Originally posted by v4lu3s
have you done a compression test to make sure that you ahve good compression? also checked the ignition system?
I have a compression tester, but I haven't checked it yet. I'll do that asap! Good suggestion.

Also, I have an MSD blaster coil with dist. cap, Magnacor 10mm plug wires, NGK iridium plugs gapped at 51 and a brand new distributor rotor. I thought that the plugs could be fouled so I bought another set and still have yet to put them in.
Old 11-12-2002, 12:11 PM
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DAMN SON!!!h:

Plugs gapped at .051" is going to be a little much. I'm thinkin about .032" for those new ones before you put them in.
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Originally posted by forcedinduction
DAMN SON!!!h:

Plugs gapped at .051" is going to be a little much. I'm thinkin about .032" for those new ones before you put them in.
Umm.... if you read the service manual, recommended plug gap for a 1997 B18C1 is 0.051"

I don't know what you're gapping for, but if it's a GSR motor you might want to fix those. :thumbup:
Old 11-12-2002, 01:00 PM
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Oops, my bad. I failed to take notice of what engine. It's not like you have a pic of it in your sig or anything...
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Originally posted by forcedinduction
Oops, my bad. I failed to take notice of what engine. It's not like you have a pic of it in your sig or anything...

I knew something was amiss. haha
Old 11-12-2002, 01:09 PM
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0.051" is the service limit, not the reccomended gap. The plugs should be gapped at 0.039-0.043" to start out with.
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Originally posted by MrFatBooty
0.051" is the service limit, not the reccomended gap. The plugs should be gapped at 0.039-0.043" to start out with.
I'm running at a 9.5:1 compression, what gap do you recommend for my plug application?



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