Well A few days back after feeling my M6 Z running a little rough and gettingk kinda crappy gas mileage i decided i was gonna get a tune up. At 1st i thought about waiting until I get my headers done so i can get new plugs put in then but decided i had a few things to take care of on my A4 Z. I got quotes from $200- to over $500 at a chevy dealer. I could of paid it but i was like damn I hate to give money away. I have done alot of maintaince on LT1 cars over the years radiators,wiring of headlights most all of bolt ons but i heard how ugly spark plug/wire changes are in LT1s. Well guess what My 1st time ever i did it in 2 hours flat and that was at a slow pace. I did the drivers side from the bottom and the passenger side from the top. I heard other people do it the other way around but this worked easier for me. I used a socket extension on the 1st plug on passenger side near the alternator and also on the far rear passenger plug. I hope that this could help some of you out that kinda skeptical because of the rumors. Im gonna do my A4 Z soon Hopefully i will be able to do it within a hr this time

 

the plugs are the hard part

 

wait till u change the wires

 

The wires is where the fun begins..

 

yeah the wires flat out suck

 

I don't get it; 3 follow-up post are fore warnings regarding the wires and one is about changing the plugs.

It sounds like he did both the wires and the plugs in two hours flat at a leisurely pace or am I reading his post wrong?

Any way, this a winter project for me. Should I invest in the SLP F-body cut down plug socket with the hex drive drilled out?

Summit's price is $22 but it looks like something I can make from a regular spark plug socket on a lathe....

Regards

 

Good for you, bro!

Congrats!

 

ive seen that slp thing and it looks like it would help alot. yea your rite... his post is kind of confusing because he says plug/wire change, but only talks about plugs, and besides i think its imposible to do both in 2 hours your first time, plugs are easy, they took me a hour the first time, but i did otvc wires and just cut the old ones to get them out and it took me like 4 hours