Re: Adaptive Spark Ignition System & Spark Plug Gap

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Re: Adaptive Spark Ignition System & Spark Plug Gap

Re: Adaptive Spark Ignition System & Spark Plug Gap

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Re: Adaptive Spark Ignition System & Spark Plug Gap

Yes I did look up the specs for your TC meter.  It's limits of error are only valid for a range of 18 degrees F (ambient, not what you're measuring), an you were no where near the listed numbers.  Now to me, that sounds an awful lot like your meter does not include temperature compensate with an RTD.  You do know how a TC meter works rights?  And if you really want to get into it, you picked probably the 3rd worst TC type (T) for anything near your super high-energy wham bam thank you mam ignition system.  Now I may be wrong, but only if the technical writer that authored your user manual dropped the ball.
Dude, seriously do you know how a TC meter works?  It's a comparative, not a specific measurement.  Ambient temp is VERY important if your meter does not have a compensation circuit, and I can't find anywhere in your manual that says it does.  However I can find where it implies that it does not.
Why are you even arguing about this?  I already agreed that your findings were valid.
You would not want SC's inside something as hot as a dizzy?  Are you for real, do you know how hot the core of a CPU runs?
The point your missing is that whatever limitations exist in the stock setup, in no way apply if you just take care of your engine.  If you car idles like a Briggs and Stratton, do you give it more spark, of fix it?  The argument has never been from the standpoint that stock enough for a performance engine since the setup was not designed with the intention of working on engines pushing 3, 4, even 11 times the stock output.  However, sans points, the stock system has put plenty of cars through the traps at very impressive speeds.  Argue the science behind it all you want, it works in the real world. 
With regards to the spark plugs, it's a crapshoot.  One time can gall the threads or ten times could do nothing.  My heads cost way too much money to piss around with cheap plugs.  You know, the threads are indexed differently for every single hole.  You can't index of a junk head and hope it's the same as what you're running.  I'm quite sure you have R&R'd plugs many times in that head, but it's not a running head.  It doesn't see the temp variants the heads on your engine do, so the observation is invalid.  Your though about cross threading holds water too because cut threads are much easier to cross thread that rolled threads.  I have seen threads ripped clean out of a head before so it's possible.  And thread chasers should not be necessary unless you've already damaged the threads.  Perhaps you're fixing the symptoms and not seeing the problem.
We can go back and forth forever on this, I know I have the resources for it, but I'm getting kinda burned out on the rhetoric so I'm done.  --Ryan