I am going to replace the plugs on my car and was wondering what has to be removed to get to them? is it just the plastic covers on the valve covers that I need to get access?
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I replaced them today, it was pretty much the plastic covers over the valve covers to get to the coils and them. I did remove the bolts that hold the air intake that runs over the motor in place so that it could be moved enough to get at the front two cylinders. The plugs I took out had 56k miles on them and looked great, they were opened up enough to allow a .035 wire gage to pass through the gap but look like they would have gone another 20k miles without issue. I did find some cracks on in the plastic bodies of two of the coils(on the undersides) since I have never had misfiring issues I opted to just seal them up with some two part epoxy. This car gets driven pretty hard so I was impressed that the plugs looked so good, I have done hours long runs at 100, hit 140 at one point(gps verified) and ran the Nurburgring last week.

 

That's great,I plan to replace mine in a month or so