cr-rex

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All speculation..... Dont discredit their customer service based on a bunch of assumptions. Reach out and ask. Make the effort. If you're right then cool but at least give them the opportunity to fix it

David Hayes

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When my MSD wires were having issues - we found that 3 out of the 6 had continuity problems - as a temporary step the shop I was at - Addicted - grabbed a set of SBG wires to use in my car. Because we just had the issue with the MSD wires, we also tested the SBG ones and found they too had about a 50% defect rate. It was like Pete described, the issue presented when you jiggled/bent the wires. Out of the 4 we tested, 2 were bad. So, we scrapped this idea and I made a temp set of MSD ones from Autozone until my Magnecor wires showed up.

I agree with Pete, it's in the way the ends are prepared and crimped. By contrast, I took my time cutting and crimping the temp MSD ones and they all tested fine.

I'll also agree with cr-rex, there is no harm in reaching out to SBG. You never know. But the wires will still only be 8.5mm MDS units and I'd opt for the quality and 10mm size of the Magnecor units any day. Night and day difference.

Pete_89T2

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Since I only have one bad wire in my Sakebomb/MSD set, and that one wire was long enough to stand losing about an inch from a re-crimp operation, I ordered some MSD terminals for both ends and rebuilt that wire reusing the wire and boots. Works fine now, but I consider this a temporary solution as my 1 rebuilt wire will probably outlast the 3 currently good wires which will likely loosen up and fail the same way over time.

BTW, buying a custom set Magnacore wires are not that much more costly than going the DIY route of building your own set of wires out of the MSD components (bulk wire, terminals & boots) that you would need to buy at Summit, JEGS or whoever. If David got a custom set of 6 wires for his 20B for about $100, I'm guessing a set of 4 for a 13B would come out to about 20%~30% less.

David Hayes

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That's what I was thinking. Why go through the effort when you can end up with a set of higher quality, 10mm wires for about the same price?

D4rw1n

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This is the email I received from SakeBomb .


“Hey Jason,


I'm very sorry to hear you've been experiencing these problems with the wires! If there are multiple customers experiencing problems of this nature, we definitely need to get in contact with them, you're the first person to inform us of an issue like this. Given the output of the IGN-1A coils it is definitely possible that some kind of manufacturing defect could cause arcing like you describe, if this is a manufacturer issue we will definitely warranty those wires.

Could you please send us a photo of the compromised wires, so we can take a look at exactly what happened? Most likely we're just going to be exchanging them for another set, but we'd like to see what we're dealing with. We are very sorry for the frustration and we'll get this sorted out ASAP!

-Alexandra”



So I guess we need everyone that is having problems with these kits/wires to contact SakeBomb. Even if it just alerts them to the issues so future purchasers of that kit don’t have bad wires in a couple months after purchase.

Pete_89T2

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So I recently pulled the trigger on a set of Magnacore wires. I opted for their 8.5mm wires, built to my specs for length & terminations; I'm running a 13B-REW with 4x IGN-1A smart coils in the cruise unit location/Sakebomb bracket. Wires cost me about $110 shipped, and they work as advertised.

In fact they may work a little better than advertised - one of the advantages Magnacore claims is that its wires are designed to minimize radiated EMI from the wires. This prevents potential cross-firing of nearby wires and limits EMI interference to sensitive electronics. While trying to use my trusty old inductive timing light to double check my Link ECU's base timing calibration, I discovered that the timing light would not fire off of any of the Magnacore wires; this is despite the FD was idling well and obviously not having any ignition misses. Same timing light works fine on all my other cars. Which means that these Magnacore wires really do attenuate radiated EMI off the wires - well enough to prevent my inductive timing light from working.

So to check my timing now, I have to substitute one of the old wires for the Magnacore wire to use my timing light!

gxl90rx7

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magnacor's writeup on their website sold me on their 10mm wires, ive been running a set for a while now

also just wanted to add sakebomb has excellent customer service based on my experience, just call them and they will 100% sort it out whatever issue you have

Pete_89T2

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I was seriously considering buying their 10mm wires, but the applications engineer I spoke to at Magnacor talked me out of it. According to him, the only benefit of the thicker 10mm wires over the 8.5mm wires is they can withstand a bit more thermal abuse. But that's with reduced flexibility (the thicker wires need a larger bend radius) which makes routing in an already tight FD engine bay tougher, and they obviously cost more. In my FD application, the wires don't go near anything too hot, such as headers as they would in a V8 motor, and that extra thermal protection the 10mm wires offer isn't needed.