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Burning Brakes
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Opinions?
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From: Rocky Mountains USA
If your existing plugs are good, its not going to add anything.
The thermostat is to allow the tuner to reduce the engine temps and turn the fans on earlier with the idea of cooling the intake temps down.
But you kind of want a hot engine and cold intake air..
The exhaust and CAI are the main things that will raise output. The rest really rounding errors.
Like you say, just fit whatever yourself and go and get it tuned if you like. A tune is probably useful as the airflow through the engine will have changed and therefore the base volumetric efficiency map should be updated.. It affects spark timing and fueling etc. Maf table will need recalibrating for new CAI etc, etc.
The thermostat is to allow the tuner to reduce the engine temps and turn the fans on earlier with the idea of cooling the intake temps down.
But you kind of want a hot engine and cold intake air..
The exhaust and CAI are the main things that will raise output. The rest really rounding errors.
Like you say, just fit whatever yourself and go and get it tuned if you like. A tune is probably useful as the airflow through the engine will have changed and therefore the base volumetric efficiency map should be updated.. It affects spark timing and fueling etc. Maf table will need recalibrating for new CAI etc, etc.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 1,173
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If your existing plugs are good, its not going to add anything.
The thermostat is to allow the tuner to reduce the engine temps and turn the fans on earlier with the idea of cooling the intake temps down.
But you kind of want a hot engine and cold intake air..
The exhaust and CAI are the main things that will raise output. The rest really rounding errors.
Like you say, just fit whatever yourself and go and get it tuned if you like. A tune is probably useful as the airflow through the engine will have changed and therefore the base volumetric efficiency map should be updated.. It affects spark timing and fueling etc. Maf table will need recalibrating for new CAI etc, etc.
The thermostat is to allow the tuner to reduce the engine temps and turn the fans on earlier with the idea of cooling the intake temps down.
But you kind of want a hot engine and cold intake air..
The exhaust and CAI are the main things that will raise output. The rest really rounding errors.
Like you say, just fit whatever yourself and go and get it tuned if you like. A tune is probably useful as the airflow through the engine will have changed and therefore the base volumetric efficiency map should be updated.. It affects spark timing and fueling etc. Maf table will need recalibrating for new CAI etc, etc.
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$4,295.00
- American Racing 1 7/8″ Stainless Headers w/ Off-Road X-Pipe
- NGK TR55 Spark Plugs
- 160* Thermostat
- Halltech Cold Air Induction
- Mighty Mouse Solutions Oil Catch Can
- All New Fluids & Filter
- Professional Installation
- Complete ECU Calibration
- Includes Baseline Dyno Test + All Licenses
- Includes Full Street & Dyno Tuning w/ Customer Print Out
Burning Brakes
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From: SW Desert
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From: WI
For reference A&A supercharger kits come with NKG plugs and they've shipped thousands of these kits that work well. I have NGK TR6 plugs that work great with my A&A kit.
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Never heard this before either, my Corvette mechanic has done 1000s of builds using NGK TRK plugs with no issues. I have NGK TR6 in my cammed LS3 and it screams from idle to redline