hi. i just bought a set of nology wires. they are just the normal spark plug wires....but it comes with a grouund that your supposed to bolt onto the firewall/engine or something. i didnt do that, so is that bad?

 

First suggestion: If you can, return these wires immediately! That ground wire is the supposed "advantage" to these wires - it is the other plate of a capacitor effect that gives you an extremely short duration hot spark. Of course, this is of no use to anyone running a modern-day emissions tuned engine - they need a very long duration spark. That is why virtually every CD ignition module sold today is multi-spark - even a single CD spark (150 times longer than a Nology spark, by the way) is way too short. Also, as the wire ages, this capacitor effect ends up bleeding more energy to ground than it sends to the plug! For this expensive a wire, it is very short lived. I recommend a good Magnetic Suppression Wire instead - Magnecor or NGK come to mind. Even a Pep Boys store brand is better then this Nology junk though, imho.

Irv, Keith's dad