I second David on that though, when preparing for Emissions, my mechanic
removed the three pronged platinum plugs I had installed and replaced them
with single ones. His argument was that the coil in the vanagon was not
designed to supply the required output for those plugs so it was a waste
of money.

Jorge
'85 Wolfsburg Weekender
Betsy a.k.a "Plan B"

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Aristotle Sagan wrote:
> > Can any one of you back up a single statement that you have made?
> >
> > I thought not. I put spark plug theories in the same catagory as DOT3/4
> > musings, holed cat superstitions, .91 Octane beliefs, etc., etc.
>
> Well, yes.  But I'd argue that considering that multi-electrode plugs
> didn't even exist yet when the Vanagon's engine was designed, its
> ignition system must have been designed to work okay with conventional
> plugs.
>
> To some extent I regard the multiple-electrode plugs as a scam; the
> spark will ionize the path of least resistance and all the current will
> go through that path.  It will never fork to multiple electrodes the way
> the Splitfire ads show it.
>
> --
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 VW Diesel Westfalia
> '86 Volvo 240DL wagon
>