If there is unburnt fuel, it will show up by inspecting the spark plugs.. but by themselves shouldn't double your HC count over average (without you noticing when you drive)! Also I won't vary the spark plug away from the factory recommendation.
Consider your opportunity cost, I assume you don't have a gas meter, ramp, spare sensors you can swap out and ECU schematics etc handy.. While it is nice to be able to diagnose and fix things yourself; sometimes it is just more cost effective to take it to a shop that knows what they are doing.. If you get paid $40/hour and say your first trip to the Aircare station is a 2 hour diagnostic to figure out HC is high, that's nearly an hour of shop time. Support Revscene and go to a sponsor like Phil or Racing Greed etc. Oh don't pay cash, get a receipt if it is a new shop that you have never been, so at least you get a paper trail.
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Also from my reading on the same forums spark plugs for this car/engine should be changed if the regular ngk's are used, every 5000ish kms. Apparently this is only the case for the regular plugs, the ones with only one little side sticking up, platinums last longer. So the reason i mentioned the plugs is because when I got the car I checked them, and they're not platinums, but they looked new, with no corrosion or anything so I left them, and now its been ~4000kms so maybe I should go platinum? Since the issue with hydrocarbon can be linked to unburned fuel, I thought maybe it had to do with the spark plugs not igniting properly?
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