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What causes plugs to turn red?

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tonys5.0

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In the middle of changing over to a colder plug for nitrous on my 04 gt I pulled two plugs that had turned red (see attached pics). These are motorcraft plugs. They went in white but they came out red. Anyone have a suggestion to what might have caused this?
 

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bdcardinal

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fuel additives.
 

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bdcardinal said:
fuel additives.
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yep...don't worry about it
 
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