Spark plug gap: Simple question with varying answers..

Uni · Jul 25th, 2004, 01:46 AM

The plug: NGK BKR6E-11

The gap according to Kojima: .44, then .40,

The gap according to guy at AutoZone: .40

My car: 98 200SX SE, every day car.

Thank you in advance for your responses.

Uni · Jul 25th, 2004, 01:51 AM

BKR6ES-11

Thanks

aminidab · Jul 25th, 2004, 02:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aimlesspee

The plug: NGK BKR6E-11

The gap according to Kojima: .44, then .40,

The gap according to guy at AutoZone: .40

My car: 98 200SX SE, every day car.

Thank you in advance for your responses.

Those autozone guys know a lot more than Mike Kojima. A few months in an auto parts shop easily equals the experience Kojima has.

Hendrix · Jul 25th, 2004, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by aminidab

Those autozone guys know a lot more than Mike Kojima. A few months in an auto parts shop easily equals the experience Kojima has.

LMAO

Don't those plugs come straight from the factory with a .40 gap?

sno · Jul 25th, 2004, 04:47 PM

myoung · Jul 26th, 2004, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by aminidab

Those autozone guys know a lot more than Mike Kojima. A few months in an auto parts shop easily equals the experience Kojima has.

I hope that was meant as a joke.. Mike is an automotive engineer... pretty sure no engineers work the parts counter at autozone or have even 5% of the knowledge Mike does when it comes to Nissan powerplants.

sno · Jul 26th, 2004, 09:19 AM

^i'm pretty sure it was sarcasm.

aminidab · Jul 26th, 2004, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sno

^i'm pretty sure it was sarcasm.

yup it was a joke.

Uni · Jul 26th, 2004, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by myoung

I hope that was meant as a joke.. Mike is an automotive engineer... pretty sure no engineers work the parts counter at autozone or have even 5% of the knowledge Mike does when it comes to Nissan powerplants.

Hello MYOUNG.. i'm aware that he's an engineer. There are two articles where he mentions the gap a spark should have.. one of them states one gap and another one states another.. It wasn't meant as a joke, i just wanted someone to clarify.. nothing else.. i wasn't saying that Mike the automotive engineer could be WRONG because the Autozone guy said something different about the spark. You couldn't just answer the question yourself?

Glyphon · Jul 26th, 2004, 01:10 PM

the owners manual specifies 0.039mm - 0.043mm, so unless you know exactly what you are doing, i'd stick to that range.