Pulse Plug

[flyingwil]

I am not sold on this... Pulstar Pulse Plugs. At $25/ plug it has marketing to show it.

What do you guys think? is it just something else that can go wrong or a great new product?

 

[flyingwil]

bump.... anythoughts?

 

[jeffryscott]

interesting. I'm curious now.

 

[ntsqd]

Every so often that comes up. Never has taken off. Must be a reason. Nology put the same basic circuit in their plug wires.

I'm inclined to think that the Engineers at Champion, NGK, Autolite, AC, Nippondenso, etc. collectively aren't dummies. Stands to reason that if it worked they'd have tried marketing it.
Look at the plethora of multi ground electrode plugs to have recently hit the market. Those came from aviation engines. My understanding of those is that they came about as a redundancy thing. For some reason people seem to have an aversion to planes falling out of the sky.....

 

[adventureduo]

Interesting. It's hard to say how good they work... since it seems anyone can come up with a fancy marketing explanation that makes a Turbo Intake Wheel thingy sound good.

What ever happened to Splitfire Sparkplugs? They still around?

 

[flyingwil]

So the collective answer is advertising gimmick?

 

[DaveInDenver]

So the collective answer is advertising gimmick?

Would be my guess. The plug can't make any more power than it's delivered by the ignition (unless they have a secondary connection I don't see). So maybe there's a little capacitor inside. But all that will do is change the way the energy is discharged by the plug, not increase it. Shorter rise time, higher voltage or shorter pulse maybe, but not more power. Sort of looks like part of a capacitive discharge ignition. These have always been temperamental and only in the past decade or so have they become common and reliable. Remember the old Bosch Motronic? Yeah, I'm skeptical.