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Date:         Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:02:31 -0500
Reply-To:     Matt Roberds <mattroberds@COX.NET>
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From:         Matt Roberds <mattroberds@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Pulstar Pulse Plugs???
Comments: cc: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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> From: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:26:08 -0700 > > http://www.pulstarplug.com/index.html

I haven't looked at it but I'll tell you a story. A few years back my mom was at an antique shop and picked me up a copy of the 1960-something JC Whipme catalog for a couple of bucks. Every single "brand new revolutionary" plug design I'd ever heard of since I was old enough to know what a spark plug was (around 1980 or so) was in there. Well, I'd never seen spark plugs with "Scientifically Irradiated Electrodes!" at the parts store, but I'd seen most of the rest of them.

Similarly, I was reading a bicycle enthusiast's Web site and he mentioned a book on bicycle technology from 1905-ish. His position was that if you gave him any modern press release for some revolutionary new bicycle product, it'd only take him a few minutes to find exactly the same product in the 1905 book.

> They seem to have a plug for the stock 2.1 engine........at $25 EACH :-(

Hmmm... last time I looked the Bosch copper WsomethingAC plus were maybe $1 or $1.50 each. If you buy *two* sets of Bosch plugs for $12, you've still got $88 in your pocket versus buying one set of the nifty plugs. At $3/gal and 18 mpg, that's another 500+ mile trip in the van. Or two cases and change of some very fine beer, or a couple of fifths of 12-year- old single malt Scotch whisky. Or a nice set of flat ratcheting metric wrenches. Or such a nice dinner for you and the significant other that you'd have to dress up, or two or three more modest but still quite nice dinners. Whatever turns your crank.

Matt Roberds


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