I just thought I should share this story with you guys. As some of you may know i have been AutoXing my car as of late, and everything has been going great. Well yesterday I pulled out of my driveway and started driving out of my subdivision, just as I go to pull out onto the main road the engine starts to sound like a gokart engine and starts reeking of gas. I immediately stop the car and get out to look under the hood, only to find a melted plug wire hanging from the valve cover. So I grab a flash lite to check the plug out and to my suprise there is no plug to look at!

So I park it get my dads car run to walmart (Advanced was closed) buy a spark plug and on the way home find the original lying in the entrence of my subdivision. Now I did change my spark plugs around Christmas, and haven't checked them since, but what are the odds of them coming loose and falling out of the engine!? So today Im going to put in the new one and have to buy new plug wires to make sure I still have a car to drive.

 

whhaaaaaaat the fuck?! ive never heard of something like that happening before. Arent sparkplugs screwed in? thats some weird shit

 

That's weird man, did you torque them down to spec? Very odd that the wire was melted as well, are you still auto-x'ing on your stock suspension btw?

 

thats some weird shit

 

wierd aint the word. it would have to unscrew itself, and pop out like 4-5 inches. unless it was sabbatage

 

Are your wires Bosch? there have been reports that Bosch wires pop out and cause damage much worse...

If it's oem wire then that's... indescribable.

 

I've heard of so much force from noss blowing your spark plugs out, but this sounds like vibration, or like sleeper was saying the wires somehow wriggling them out. Check and see if the other ones are loose too maybe?

 

:ibdadusedyoursparkpluginlawnmower:

 

so there's no plug and a melted wire?? What the fuck?

 

Blame this guy

 

yessssssss, car gremlins!

 

This is BS... how the hell did you even start the car with a missing spark plug???

 

Sounds like it didn't totally pop out until he was already driving. Yes, you can start your car running on 3 cylinders, but it will sound bad.

 

 

Sabotage!!

That IS weird though....

 

That's real scary, I bet it was a gremlin. Hope your engines alright!

 

ok i took your spark plug!! i hate you and your car!!! jk

 

 

Ya it didn't come out until i had been driving it! i would have noticed if it had been running on 3 cylinders! But now for an update, today i replaced the wires and plug and torqued it to spec, but for some reason it is still miss fireing so its going in tomorrow, wish me luck

 

Ya im still autoxing on the stock suspension, and i took down a 350z and a Corvette C6! hahah they can't drive for shit, b/c damn they should have killed me!

 

Gonna have to call on beating the vette and 350 but do you have anything to prove that?

 

maybe the vette and 350z owners were old and wrinkly..

hmm.. i need to go to a track someday and test out all the techniques i learned from granturismo.. haha.. too bad seattle doesnt have good tracks..

 

I love seattle on granturismo.

 

maybe some dumb ass pored some crap in yuur cyilinder.

 

i actually tried to scope out the exact same roads that they used.. haha.. they dont connect in real life at all.. LOL.. i was stopped by like 5 walls..

 

is there actually a race that goes through there?

 

Read it and weep biotches!
novice catagory number 29 right behind the Scion TC

http://www.etrscca.org/soloii/result...onal_2_sum.htm

 

yes there is actually its a champcar race though not a sports car race, and i think they might have moved that race some where else

 

nice... but according to that, you got beat by a Pontiac Slo-stice.

 

If it makes you feel better i blew by him on the highway on the way there, but then he just passed me back as soon as he realized we were racing, but the finishing order thing, thats do to the fact that AutoX is about car handling and driver skill horespower has nothing....very little to do with it. And even though its a Slo-stice it can still out handle my 3300lb pushwagon with the blown out shocks. lol

but back to the actual thread! I got my car back yesterday and it didn't cost me a dime to get fixed! And apparently this kind of thing happens atlest 3 times a month. The reason my spark plug came out was because the aluminum block engine, flexes a little when they start to get to hot, it will cause the plugs to come loose!? And the reason it wasn't firing after I replaced everything was because there was a piece of plastic or something from the last plug that was not allowing a connection, so they just cleaned it out and now its all good!

 

nope.. its pretty much a fantasy seattle track.. it'll never happen in real life

 

1st place novice was a sonoma?

good job at the tracks. might wanna fix your shocks though
btw, are you on TNAcura.com?