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Old 08-14-2012, 03:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Fimum Fit View Post
You don't want to do a full throttle acceleration run or a top speed run, which will often burn the fouling permanently into the spark plug insulators or injection pre-chambers, but rather, take the car up to high revs relatively gently and hold it at the high rev rate for some miles so that the high revs and maximum air/fuel flow will scrub things out.
Funny you mention that - that's more or less how I always drive.
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