Spark Plug Wires
04-01-05, 11:24 AM
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Spark Plug Wires
Alright,
I checked all my plugs and wires today because my car wouldnt start. L1 and T1 are both broken on the rotar cap side and have green crap all up in the boot of it and inside the cap).
What gives? Is there something I did wrong?
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I checked all my plugs and wires today because my car wouldnt start. L1 and T1 are both broken on the rotar cap side and have green crap all up in the boot of it and inside the cap).
What gives? Is there something I did wrong?
- Tech
04-01-05, 01:49 PM
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Corrosion from moisture. Since this sounds like the first time you've ever checked something like this, you didn't do anything wrong. However, if you were the person who changed the wires a while ago, you should have used dielectric grease on the boots to prevent moisture from getting in.
04-01-05, 02:56 PM
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Yeah,
My dad said something but it didn't come with any so we just ignored it and didnt go buy any. Yes, we changed the wires, these arent even two months old.
I'm using an old wire now, is there any harm in cross breeding the wires?
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My dad said something but it didn't come with any so we just ignored it and didnt go buy any. Yes, we changed the wires, these arent even two months old.
I'm using an old wire now, is there any harm in cross breeding the wires?
- Tech
04-01-05, 05:00 PM
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Totally not. It's not as if the spark will somehow travel slower through one brand of wire than another. Yes, they are resistance type wires, but any slowing that occours, if at all, is too infinitesimally small to worry about. I've even replaced my trailing coil to cap wire when the set I had was leaking. All blue NGK except for one grey Bosch. 
04-01-05, 06:02 PM
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Well Holy COW,
There's a stretch of road that I usally am about to hit 2nd gear on right before the stop sign, today, it was almost third gear I WAS FLYING.
It runs better than when it did when we first got the new wires, perhaps its the brand of wires? What's the best brand?
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There's a stretch of road that I usally am about to hit 2nd gear on right before the stop sign, today, it was almost third gear I WAS FLYING.
It runs better than when it did when we first got the new wires, perhaps its the brand of wires? What's the best brand?
- Tech
04-02-05, 04:36 AM
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Finding more power just from correcting a small problem in the ignition sure is fun.
I'm partial to NGK. If I was going for something a bit more expensive, I'd get a set of Magnecore wires because their website has an intelligent discussion on what makes a plug wire good, and the skin effect and so on. They mention this next bit on their site, but I'll single it out for you here: did you know that when you measure the resistance of a plug wire, your ohm meter is only sending a very low voltage through it? Electricity behaves differently at higher voltages; therefore just because one brand of wires may show more resistance than another brand on a meter, it doesn't mean it'll perform worse than another brand at coil secondary voltages. If you were really worried about resistance at those voltages, you'd be better off with non-resistance wires, heh and no radio. Something to think about.
I'm partial to NGK. If I was going for something a bit more expensive, I'd get a set of Magnecore wires because their website has an intelligent discussion on what makes a plug wire good, and the skin effect and so on. They mention this next bit on their site, but I'll single it out for you here: did you know that when you measure the resistance of a plug wire, your ohm meter is only sending a very low voltage through it? Electricity behaves differently at higher voltages; therefore just because one brand of wires may show more resistance than another brand on a meter, it doesn't mean it'll perform worse than another brand at coil secondary voltages. If you were really worried about resistance at those voltages, you'd be better off with non-resistance wires, heh and no radio. Something to think about.
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