[Healeys] Spark Plugs

Bob Spidell bspidell at comcast.net
Sun Jan 31 16:48:17 MST 2021


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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