I've put 60k miles on the car since I bought it and have never changed the spark plugs, so I figured now would be a good time. Bought some NGKs, gapped them all to 0.028" due to being chipped, put some anti-seize on them, and torqued them in at 20 ft-lb using a certified torque wrench. Feels like it pulls a little harder and smoother. Freed up some of that power that has been lost over the past 4 years of owning this car. Just thought I'd share for anyone who was thinking of on doing their plugs.

 

haynes manual says 22 ft-lb. idk what 2ft-lb less will do though. i guess you'll find out if a plug decides to pop out a little bit lol. now do your fuel filter lol

 

I did the fuel filter about 6 months ago. This was the one glaring piece of simple maintenance I hadn't bothered to do.

 

I bet those plugs looked pretty rough...

 

I just replaced mine too, one on a long list of maintenance things that needed to be done. Slowly chipping away at it...