Re: IT RUNS!! WOOHOO!!!

[Angus Holliday <trstag@domain.elided>]

>Two more questions:
>1.  The workshop manual calls for Champion 12Y or 14Y plugs; the car had 9Y 
>plugs in it.  Is this a hotter or colder plug?  Are 9Ys O.K.?  Seems to run 
>well.
We *really* don't like Champions.  Particularly with electronic.  Maybe
someone else does.  We find them to be poor performers and short lived.  We
find Nippondenso (ND) U grooves best (in conventional plugs)  NGK and Bosch
close 2nds.  Bosch platnums work fine too but cost more. Remember to put
antiseize on the threads to protect the aluminum threads.

>2.  With my other older cars, I run a lead additive in the gas.  Should I do 
>so in the Stag?  I know the benefits of this are widely debated, but I figure 
>it's cheap insurance.  Do I need it, though, with an engine with an aluminum 
>head?
It isn't the head that would wear..its the valves and seats .  Despite the
British non-belief, over  1000 Stags have run for 10+ years
on American no lead and I haven't seen or been told of a case of valve
recession yet. (in a Stag)
>
Walter
Stag Specialists
520 792 0294