Loose Spark Plugs

I hope my situation may help someone else out.

anyway, I replaced my Plugs in March 08, I used the Anti-Seize and torqued the plugs at 25 ft/lbs. about three months later I started to hear a popping from my exhaust, I thought it was just getting hot due to summer and the Long Tube headers would do that. over time the popping got worse and I even had a Dyno tune done but still it was popping. I started to smell gas while driving and thought the fuel tang vapor exchanger was bad, but nope. then last week the popping started when I would get on the gas so I decided to pll the plugs and to my amaisment allthe plugs were loose, three were so loose that I did not even need the wrench to lossen them.
I pulled them all and two of the tip was melted to a nub.

I am replacing all the plugs today, Could I have dammaged the valves since the cylinder was sucking air around the plug making it lean? and Idea or suggestions? what should I look for..

Thanks

kooldawg6 said:

That sucks! I got to the parking lot just as your car was going through its last dyno pull, but heard no popping. Also later that day when I rode with you from BK, I heard no popping Seems these cars are hit or miss with spark plug issues I know Marc didn't use anti seize when he put the new ones in after the cam swap. I've been putting off even checking mine. If I have no problems, I'll probably wait until sometime early next year and change them when I do the cam/header install.

BTW, how did the converter swap go Sunday?

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Yes I finally got the converter installed, It took about 5 hours, but I crossed the cables for the Turbine speed sensor and the intermediate speed sensors so I spend another hour trying to swap them.

The TCI Super Street Fighter 3500 is looser than I thought it would be, and the RPMs seems to hang up to 2500 RPM before it shifts under light load, I hope to hit that track soon to try it out. I am trying to work out two issues
1 - the O/D light will blink once and a while, code says 2nd/5th gear servo failure
2 - Plug Issue, still missing at idle and backfires from exhaust while I hit that gas at launch, It looks like the COP Boots are bad because the spark on one or two plugs is traveling along the surface of the Plugs porcelain insolator.