[EscortSportage]

Ok let me start.

Drove the car from ct to nc. No problems! (other than a little rocker tick on the passenger side)

Once i made it on base...
Tightened rockers

My friend over tightened the rear passenger side intake manny nut and cracked my manifold ... (didnt notice at first). Had a huge vauum leak

Pull off manny. Got it tig welded, i sanded it down put new trickflow gaskets on with my 1inch spacer

Tightened all my header bolts had an exhaust leak ok..

Runing really rough, pulled the spark plugs one plug was completly black as in the entire plug, as in it must have been loose where it was leakig through the threads

All the other plugs looked good i put them all back in. Still runnig rough


Im going to buy new wires and plugs but this is driving me crazy, there is alot of vibration going throu the gears and she is chugging like im on 7 cylinders



Any ideas?

[VM0824]

test resistance in wires with an multimeter. should be around 100ohms on new superconducting wires. before i changed my last pair, they were at like 10,000 ohms..bad wires.

lights off test? run engine at night in garage and look for blue sparks near coil? this happened to me.

the plug? hmm id think valve cover leak if the black was only on the outside of the plug, but maybe got to the inside and burned black?

if im not mistaken, you can run the engine self test and it shuts off cylinders one by one to check the rpm drop for each cylinder. see if that throws a code

[fogged306]

Originally Posted by VM0824 test resistance in wires with an multimeter. should be around 100ohms on new superconducting wires. before i changed my last pair, they were at like 10,000 ohms..bad wires.

If you had low resistance wires, yea 10k is a bad wire. But normal spark plug wires are 1.5k per foot and up. The ford racing ones are ridiculous, like 8k a foot or something excessive like that. So if you had normal wires 10k may not have meant they were bad.

[EscortSportage]

I have shittty ford racing wires now... I was gonna do msd wires again but im looking at taylor