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    Emergency Sparkplugs

    Short story. I bought a 07 Z20 with a 225 ProXS at the end of December with 230 hours on it. It has run great all spring and summer till about a month ago when it started missing and dieing at idle. Holeshot and top-end were fine. Ordered new NGK plugs to install. Well on Friday afternoon a buddy of mine calls and wants to fish a tourney on Sunday. His boat is at a lake in the opposite direction and mine is handy. We will make about a 90 mile boat ride one way for the tourney. So, I go out to change the plugs. Either I ordered the wrong plugs or they sent me the wrong ones because the plugs are NGK IFR6J instead of IZFR6J. They are visually different. I call around to try to find some correct plugs and could not find any anywhere around. A search on the internet for cross reference plugs showed an Autolite plug that crossed. AutoZone had them so I bought 6. Autolite Iridium XP part number XP5405. Put them in and the boat ran and idled great. I am going to replace them with the correct NGK's when they come in, but this may save someone in a tourney situation one day. Take a look at my old plugs and you will know why I wanted them changed.






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    Re: Emergency Sparkplugs (bassinvol)

    Just friendly advise here.... but I would not EVER recommend running ANY SPARK PLUG other than the RECOMMENDED NGK PLUG in your Optimax (in this case, IZFR6J ONLY).

    The Autolite plug referenced above is NOT SUITABLE FOR OPTIMAX ENGINES.



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