Help with HEI wires for 71BB
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Clarksville Indiana
Help with HEI wires for 71BB
I got my new Holley and new HEI dist installed and it sounds great! Now I am going to go through the Timing Sticky and get all that right. But My first problem before I can do that is I have to get a set of new plug wires, The ones that were on it with points wont fit the HEI cap and a extra set I had laying around for HEI have 90* boots on the plug end that wont fit down in the stock exhaust manifolds, I have them jammed and crammed in there just to start it. I really hope this is as simple as telling the guy at Auto Zone I need wires for a 76 chevy pick-up truck or something like that and get something with the long straight boots on the plug end and the HEI type end for the cap end and be a right length wires so they look nice and neat running through the stock holders on the valve covers. I had red wires on it and you guys told me they looked like crap and it looks even worse now with these yellow ones. So.. I need correct end/boots for HEI and stock manifolds, correct length to fit neatly and black in color. Does anybody know what kind of vehicle application to give them at AZ, PeP-Boys, O'riely.. that will get me all that? Thanks!
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: Clarksville Indiana
Maybe you can help me with another detail.. If you have a tach drive dist, is your vac advance in front of the right side wire bracket or behind it? Looking down it would be like 2 o'clock or 4' o'clock.. I think I read here that the gear/cable needs to be going towards the driver side some and not straight back toward the firewall?
Melting Slicks
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From: Doha
St. Jude Donor '08
.. After trying two different ready-made sets (both didn't fit correctly), I finally bought myself a cut-to-fit set from MSD (complete kit with a crimber) and the fit now is superb, cutting and crimping were easy and I was able to finish the whole set in one hour or so.
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From: Springfield MO
Maybe you can help me with another detail.. If you have a tach drive dist, is your vac advance in front of the right side wire bracket or behind it? Looking down it would be like 2 o'clock or 4' o'clock.. I think I read here that the gear/cable needs to be going towards the driver side some and not straight back toward the firewall?
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