spark plug wires
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spark plug wires
My dad and I put new wires on our 67 camaro, he left ordering wires up to me, I called Jegs and told salesman what I had (BBC-MSD7al2-ect..) and we agreed on a set of Taylor wires. We put them on and everything was good for a couple of races, then after the 3rd weekend-3rd round of eleminations the car was huffing raw fuel and black smoke out the exhaust, it was terrible, we fought this gremlin for weeks, getting pissed and walking away for a few days at a time :evil: , my dad was convinced it was the carb (AED) so he sent it to them and it came back ok, in the mean time we tried a diff carb and it did the same thing. I checked coil, msd box, dist, cap-rotor all good, other advice was way off base, finally I tested wires with an ohmn meter (never done that before) something was not right, bottom line wires were solid core :shock: , put some new msd wires on it and its all good now. ???why did they work for a short time ???
hard lesson learned btw my dad was so convinced it was the carb he even bought a new one and it did the same thing :roll:
hard lesson learned btw my dad was so convinced it was the carb he even bought a new one and it did the same thing :roll:
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the wires that failed were solid core-not msd compatible, they had no resistance with ohmn meter
I would like to know why they worked fine at first, why werent they a problem when we first put them on?
I would like to know why they worked fine at first, why werent they a problem when we first put them on?
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Truth is that you cannot succefully, run solid core wires on any MSD system, they have to be spirial wrap wires, no matter who's brand you select. In fact you're lucky it didn't eat the MSD box, i did in the 80's from trying that with Taylor wires.
Spirial wrap period on MSD system.
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Spirial wrap period on MSD system.
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Agree, TAYLOR=Junk. Also, good point about making sure wires are not tied together. I see people tying wires together all the time, even good wires tend to arc when they get super hot, a little splash of moisture/oil.
A few months ago, my buddy's new accel (8mm i think) tied together, ran fine 1st heat, by the end of the feature he had high rpm miss. Just cutting the ties (no visible damage) cleared things up.
A few months ago, my buddy's new accel (8mm i think) tied together, ran fine 1st heat, by the end of the feature he had high rpm miss. Just cutting the ties (no visible damage) cleared things up.