FWIW.....an electrical engineer friend of mine with a custom turbo BMW z-3 with over 500hp/500ftlbs at the wheels, did the homework and said NGK is one bad A$$ plug......he said unless you get into the really specialty racing plugs NGK is where it's at.....i say for the same money go NGK as soon as i get 20,000 on my 03 the NGK's you mentioned are going in for sure...$2.50ea was what i was quoted near me seems cheap enough compared to the $17ea BMW plugs i sell at work
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Also I'm using the 3922's and love them. They went a long way in solving my timing pull probs w/ my ATP Stg3.
It was time to change the plugs so I went for one range colder (from Autolite 3923 to 3922). Before I installed these plugs, the power would drop off dramatically above 5500 in 3rd, 4th, and 5th. Now it is a much more progressive decline. The car actually maintains that pushed back in the seat feeling in the upper revs now.
I use Beru Utra-X UXF79 4 tips plugs. It's a great plug for my chipped B6.
I've noticed something interesting about the NGK BKR6E's that I'm running. #1 - They respond extremely well to the chip and the N75 J valve. #2 - I've also lowered my gap from .032\" (stock spec) to .028\" to reduce the possibility of misfires under high boost. The bottom line is that the BKR6E at .028\" is a great plug for the 1.8T AEB motor.
The cheapo Autolite 3923 works very, very well. Works well with chipped and K04 cars also.
Im using BKR7E and I can say for $10 it made my car run so much better.
I got W7DC spark plugs from the local foreign parts place...performance hasn't been ideal, and I've already looked at some of the other common issues; I'm considering new plugs in part due to fouling (bad CTS, drove with a failed CTS for too long, lots of carbon on the plugs...cleaned them up some, but I'm not convinced they're OK).
i've got some bosch silvers...and this happened after about 12k miles and currently (3k miles) later i'm getting similar symptoms as before.
I have a strong opinion in not suggesting the Bosch or the Beru. There is a reason that BOSH is no longer the OE spark plug in VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz etc., etc... Stick to the NGK, especially in a VR6, NGK has been OE since the intro of the VR6 six months after Bosh failed to produce a plug that would run in these engine during start up. The Bosch had nothing but running problems.
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