Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > Champion QA55V spark plugs

[Felix]

This might be of interest to all those who use these incredibly expensive plugs. I think even SPS bikes were supposed to have them. In any event, I found them on this French website for 20.90 Euros plus shipment. That's bluudy cheap!

Tech Twin France

I think I feel an order coming on...

[skidlids]

Felix I prefer this page from their web site
http://www.techtwin.com/eng/catalog/misc.htm
I got a quote from them april last year

"Unit price for UK clients is ; 20.90 euro
shipping cost is 15 euro
payment on ordering by Credit Card
availability within 2 weeks
regards
Fabien"

But in the end I got mine from a BMW car place in Belgium as it was just down the road from my Sisters, and as my parents were visiting her shipping didn't come into it.

[nathanhu]

sorry to put up a stupid question , what difference do these plugs make,i ask because ive got a set sat in my tool box that only covered 15 mins riding before the motor fell to bits(2000 996 bp)

[skidlids]

Mainly they are used in race spec engines, as they are a surface discharge type plug they reduce the risk of detonation that can be caused when the tip of a normal plug gets very hot from prolonged high revs, also you do not suffer the same spark errosion of the earth electrode as you would on a normal plug. In my road bikes I run NGK EV type plugs as these give a better spark than normal plugs, but the 955 Corse engine has the QA55Vs