mopar1rules Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 here's a pic of the plugs on my shee, at wot. what do you guys think? i think i'm perfect at these temps (75*feren). if it gets down to like 50-60 degrees, i think i will go up one on the mains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brugal Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 I think you should cut those threads and take a look inside. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuneRaider Posted July 6, 2008 Report Share Posted July 6, 2008 looks good to me. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magz Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 i dunno man, to me those look light grey to redish to mean, dont looks brown at all to me, id say lean i generally like to see mine a little darker brown. never had a motor go bad on me yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopar1rules Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 yeah, i like to usually run mine a little lighter than chocolate brown myself. it ran well, but with a little rich gurgle off the line with lid on and snorkel off. was running 340 mains. drilled some 1-1/8" holes on the underside of the lid and the girgle went away, with the 340 mains still in. i might go up to 350's, just for the peace of mind:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopar1rules Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 i dunno man, to me those look light grey to redish to mean, dont looks brown at all to me, id say lean i generally like to see mine a little darker brown. never had a motor go bad on me yet. you must be color blind or something:) it looks light brown to me:) i don't see no red:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanYE west Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 wow.. 350's sound fat.. I only use 300 mains in my banshee's with pipes, reeds and K&N pods. Only way your gonna get a good reading off that plug is to chop it and a look at the base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooker82 Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 wow.. 350's sound fat.. I only use 300 mains in my banshee's with pipes, reeds and K&N pods. Only way your gonna get a good reading off that plug is to chop it and a look at the base. Yep cut the threads off. When I do a plug chop my plugs look bran new in the a pic like yours. You want to look for a smoke ring around the base of the center porcelin. josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 You're fat if you only did one run on those plugs and they came out with that color. That's the only true way to check mains. http://www.dfn.com/benkaren/plugchop.html A properly jetted bike will take a little time to put that much color on the plugs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopar1rules Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 oh no, these plugs didn't have only 1 run on them. they have a couple hrs runtime on them. while farting around in the yard they will darken some and then when i do the wot runs down the road, they get to a nice cardboard brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Here's the problem with looking at plugs with a couple hours of run time. one jetting section could be lean, another rich....and whichever part you run in is where it's gonna color the plugs. The mains could be severly lean, but if you are putting about, never really getting to WOT...and the needle is rich, you'll get a false reading. Tune the mains first...then needle is my advice. The needles could be perfect and/or the mains could be spot on but one or the other is not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXBlessedWithDeathXx Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Here's the problem with looking at plugs with a couple hours of run time.one jetting section could be lean, another rich....and whichever part you run in is where it's gonna color the plugs. The mains could be severly lean, but if you are putting about, never really getting to WOT...and the needle is rich, you'll get a false reading. Tune the mains first...then needle is my advice. The needles could be perfect and/or the mains could be spot on but one or the other is not... i`m with dajogejr on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopar1rules Posted July 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 (edited) these plugs are colored the way they are from the mains. i went wide open down the road and came wide open back. after like 5 sec of wot in 6th gear i killed it and pulled in the clutch lever, right when i killed it. i pulled the plugs and snapped pics right away of what they looked like. so the coloration that you see is wot for 5 sec in 6th gear. i think there was confusion, with some thinking that i was doing all sorts of throttle ranges and drove the shee around for like 1 hr before pulling the plugs and seeing what the color was. that's not what i did. i'm going to try the plug chop method though, to see what kind of reading i get that way. Edited July 9, 2008 by mopar1rules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Did you warm it up on these plugs? If these were brand new plugs, warmed up on old ones, and you put these in and made 1 pass @ WOT to 6th gear, you have the largest smoke ring known to man...ALL of the porcelin is colored...and your bike will be crop duster and foul plugs left and right. Not trying to give you a hard time, but if you followed the instructions for a proper plug chop via the link I pasted, there is NO WAY these plugs should have that much color being brand new out of the box. Sorry..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajogejr Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 oh no, these plugs didn't have only 1 run on them. they have a couple hrs runtime on them. while farting around in the yard they will darken some and then when i do the wot runs down the road, they get to a nice cardboard brown. This is what I'm basing my findings on....your post. No way to get an accurate color/jetting read doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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