So my teacher who is big into cars says that he has been doing this to his cars since the sixties. I want to hear peoples take. I am in no way saying I endorse this unless I can hear information on why I should.

Anyways, what he said is to use a dremel to cut of the ground electrode so that it stops half way between the center electrode. So that when it does spark it goes beyond the plug. I'm thinking spark blowout/misfire...what says nabisco.

thats an old carb'd NA V8 trick

Results are about on par with indexing them.

I figured it probably was an "old guy" mod. I just wonder what effect it will have with coil packs, fuel injection, turbo and an "advanced" ecu. The main thing i was worried about was blowout. Would the effects be negligible, but not harmful? Or would it do more bad than good.

I see that this was moved. I figured this would be considered a performance adder not maintenance. But oh well..my posts always get to the sixth page of the forum by the end of the hour anyway. :o

I think that these engines run like a .29 gap, thats much smaller than the distance from the center to the side electrode.

I think you are better off leaving them alone.

I agree with ZR2_S10. Leave them alone. Spark plugs are built to specific stadards by the manufacturers for a reason.

If you need, or think you need to change the performance of your plugs, then buy different plugs. You can use this as a guideline about how plugs work to help you figure out what to do:
http://www.ngksparkplugs.com/techinfo/spark_plugs/overviewp3.asp?nav=31000&country=US