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is that lyquid oil or fuel?
If that pool of liquid in your spark plug hold oil? if so your tappet cover gasket might be leakin.
Hard to tell from those photos, but they do look a bit sooted up. does it run rich? hows your fuel economy?
Do you know when they were last changed? If they are fairly new, give them a clean up and re-gap them. If you dont know just throw some new ones in.
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You look like you're running rich. Was the liquid on the plugs oily or was it fuel?"Leafeon" '92 Lagunengrun 325i Vert (Daily Driver/Project)
http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=366044
The stickers make it go faster. :nice:
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i think it looks like oilsigpic
Gigitty Gigitty!!!!
88 cabrio becoming alpina b6 3.5s transplanted s62
92 Mtech 2 cabrio alpinweiss 770 code
88 325ix coupe manual lachsilber/cardinal
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Well if it was coolant where would it be coming from? I'm not sure but it seems all the plugs have it. Maybe wd40? I didn't do this and I just got car not too long ago. Also car had a previous turbo setup and had a turbo chip... hence the plugs I'm guessing and the running rich part. I just switched the chip out. From my understanding these cars don't have spark plug seals like Hondas do. So it's definitely not coolant. The fluid was in too part of plug. Not inside... if it was coolant my guess would be that it'd be on then plug itself from combustion chamber? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Originally posted by nando View Posthe probably meant to go one heat range hotter - but NGK numbers work backwards. lower number is hotter, higher number is colder.
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Originally posted by Mortification View PostAlso car had a previous turbo setup and had a turbo chip... hence the plugsOriginally posted by nando View Posthe probably meant to go one heat range hotter - but NGK numbers work backwards. lower number is hotter, higher number is colder.
bpr7es is a popular turbo plug. PO probably just never went back to stock when selling the car.
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Also can anyone tell me anything about that pulse sensor that goes on the spark plug wire? I'm running a I/is head on a 2.7 block apparently and can't find details as to what that wire does or where it connects to. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'm completely new to this e30 stuff. Thanks
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