Re:Re: RE: MSD 6A - Mileage

From: Jack Hilton III (HEMI@charter.net)
Date: Thu Jan 28 1999 - 10:31:50 EST


You can't unless you take some pliers out and bend each tip up .

At 07:12 AM 1/28/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>I didn't think you gapped the Platinum 4+'s. Do you?
>
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>Subject: DML: Re: RE: MSD 6A - Mileage
>Author: flyboy01@worldnet.att.net (Mark Kuzia)
>Date: 1/27/99 7:23 PM
>
>I hope you remembered to gap the plugs at .050. That makes a big difference.
>
>Mark
>http://home.att.net/~flyboy01/
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mok, Alan (SPB) <AMok@spbank.com>
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 7:08 PM
>Subject: DML: RE: MSD 6A - Mileage
>
>
>>This is just a theory...
>>
>>Your spark box/wires/plugs helps to burn the mixture BETTER. so there's
>less
>>oxygen left for the O2 sensors. Computer thinks less oxygen content in the
>>exhaust which means it's too lean and it enriches the mixture by opening
>the
>>injectors more. Therefore you're using more gas.
>>
>>Far fetched? The mysteries of OBD-II.
>>
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>'98 Dakota R/T (JBA shorties, Big K&N;TB & shiftkit soon)
>>'89 Mustang GT (347, Griggs GR-40 , Vortech S-trim...)
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dennis Pendleton
>>[mailto:Dennis.Pendleton@harrisgrp.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 2:37 PM
>> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
>> Subject: DML: MSD 6A - Mileage
>>
>> I just installed a MSD 6A ignition on my '97 Sport 3.9L and
>>my mileage went from
>> ~20 to ~16 mpg's! I thought these things were supposed to
>>increase your mileage
>> not take it away. Acceleration is much smoother and it
>>seems to have improved
>> my power but...
>>
>> I have run 2 tanks of gas thru since the install and kept my
>>foot out of it on
>> the second tank thinking it was my driving but the mileage
>>seems the same
>> regardless. I also installed Magnecore's and Platinum 4+'s
>>along with the
>> ignition but they wouldn't have any thing to do with the
>>mileage decrease.
>>
>> Anyone seen the same thing?
>>
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