[Healeys] Spark Plugs

[Michael Salter]

Just to future complicate the issue there are at least 4 types of NA8
Champion plugs.
M

On Mon., Feb. 1, 2021, 10:24 a.m. Bob Spidell, <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> Yikes! $100/ea for spark plugs?
>
> Where would I get a fourth? The 'NA' must stand for 'Not Available' ;)
>
>
>
> On 2/1/2021 3:25 AM, Bob Haskell wrote:
> > Bob,
> >
> > Looks like NA8 were replaced by N5C.  But if you're looking for
> > originality:
> >
> >
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-NOS-Champion-NA8-Black-Body-Spark-Plugs-Austin-Healey-100-4-Jaguar-XK120-MG-TD/393094267661
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bob Haskell
> > Austin Healey 3000 BN7/BT7 registrar
> >
> > On 1/31/21 6:48 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> >> We are running Champion N3C in our BN2; they work well.
> >>
> >> The shop manual calls for Champion NA.8 (whatever those are):
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1/27/2021 1:16 PM, Michael MacLean wrote:
> >>> Not to get too far off the subject about Healeys, but my Harley
> >>> Davidson (30s technology like our cars) runs the best on the
> >>> cheapest Ford Autolite 4164 copper plugs.  I tried "high
> >>> performance" plugs from Harley Davidson and saw no difference.  Best
> >>> of all they are only 89 cents a piece when on sale and I only need
> >>> two at a time.  Does anyone know for sure which Champion plug works
> >>> for the BN2?
> >>> Mike MacLean
> >>>
> >>> On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 10:18:57 AM PST, Kees Oudesluijs
> >>> <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Never had much problems with trouble because of plugs on any of my
> >>> vehicles in the past 55 years. The only thing that is more or less
> >>> important is to gap them, clean them once in a while and replace
> >>> when they are to far gone. I do not think I even did that in the
> >>> last ten years or so. I have nearly always used Champion plugs as
> >>> they are very cheap: between €8 and €15 for four.
> >>>
> >>> I presume that electronic ignition (Pertronix in my case) may also
> >>> help.
> >>>
> >>> Kees Oudesluijs
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Op 27-1-2021 om 18:27 schreef Laurie Wilford:
> >>> I continue to use only Champion plugs in my Healeys but have
> >>> experienced at least two episodes of plug problems over the years.
> >>> Based on the number of miles covered that is probably not too bad,
> >>> but the second time was with a newly installed set of plugs. One was
> >>> defective.
> >>> Both times the symptoms were intermittent missing both at idle and
> >>> on the highway.  Finally changing plugs was of course one of the
> >>> last things I did.
> >>>
> >>> Laurie Wilford
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my Galaxy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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