braided plug wires
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braided plug wires
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Are the repo braided wires anygood for performance. I have them on my 66BB. If not what is a good plug wire to use.
Jeff
Are the repo braided wires anygood for performance. I have them on my 66BB. If not what is a good plug wire to use.
Jeff
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Re: braided plug wires (jeff batchelor)
I use Accel blue BB wires that have braided stainless shields. They run about $60 and have a lifetime warranty, which Accel has honored twice over the years. I suppose if haden't crossed Death Valley and the Mohave Desert on the Power Tour, I wouldn't have fried them for the second time last spring.
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Re: braided plug wires (jeff batchelor)
It depends if you are trying to stay original. If you don't care about original, then I would use something else. The original type had a single copper core. Because the core is a single wire, it has a tendency to break easily if flexed alot.
I keep my original wires in storage but use stranded wire core for driving. Elmer is correct, the braid is for RF suppression. The radio picks that up as a slight buzz in the background (pitch changes with RPM). It doesn't bother me, but there are after-market stranded wires that have braiding or ones that have the center wire like a coil to cancel out the interference. There are non-metal cores impregnated with graphite which suppress RF noise but I avoid these since they have a much higher resistance when compared to the metal cores.
I keep my original wires in storage but use stranded wire core for driving. Elmer is correct, the braid is for RF suppression. The radio picks that up as a slight buzz in the background (pitch changes with RPM). It doesn't bother me, but there are after-market stranded wires that have braiding or ones that have the center wire like a coil to cancel out the interference. There are non-metal cores impregnated with graphite which suppress RF noise but I avoid these since they have a much higher resistance when compared to the metal cores.
