why not bosch platinums?

ya sorry i was agreeing with you. I knew eventually that was going to be taken wrong. Autolights are great plugs and can be bought for really cheap if you go to the right place.

Platinums also suck because they have an itty bitty pin electrode surrounded by ceramic. They foul real real easy. With the coppers, you have a huge (well, relative to the platinum) electrode. It takes quite a bit of gunk to foul those plugs.

Plus.... I dont know about you good folks, but I always buy 10-12 plugs when replacing mine as I break at least 2 during install and usually another one later on while working in the bay. If you break a 99 cent plug, whatever. If you break a $5 or $7 plug, thats a different story. I'm running 99 cent ford explorer champions side gapped (40-p's take a different plug). I let the 1200 MJ ignition system make the fat spark.

Damn. Never broke a plug in my life. I switched back from the Bosch Platnum plug to the Autolite. Both car and truck run better. The way I understand it is that Bosch has a one size fits all philosophy when it comes to heat ranges. They generally run to hot for the 5.0. I noticed a three mile per gallon increase in my truck after I switched.

I just broke a plug last weekend while installing my headers. Previous owner had bosch platinums in the car, though i mananged to foul those with the bigger injectors. Looks like i'll go with some autolites

Regular plugs come out at an angle and are thus out of the way when you have nice sparse stock manifolds. Once you move to equal shorty headers, you start breaking plugs. Then you switch to gt-40p's that have the plugs sticking straight out, require special headers and you are breaking quite a few plugs. My favorite is the platinum+4. Any gimmick will sell these days. Now you have 4 electrodes shrouding the spark only 1 of which gets the spark anyways and since they are all thin, most of those burn away sooner.

Bosch's are a waste of money. Autolites all the way baby. "The official spark plug of NASCAR" lol

I broke a plug taking it out once but never putting one in.