Heat shields for plug wires?
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3 of them? The odds of that are worse than winning the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. Check out the link I posted and look how many times it has happend on the F-body board.
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Stick with OEM wires... they support over 1000 horses w/o issue. Plus, they have factory metal shields and they "click" on more positively than anything else out there.
I've been running oem wires for 80,000 miles (all my car's life) and had been running HPDEs with it for the past 5 years.
My Kooks headers don't come anywhere close to the wires so I haven't been running any kool sox type protector. That said, I have seen that on LGMs one of the primaries can almost touch the wire so it would offer piece of mind so you can drive and forget about it.
I've been running oem wires for 80,000 miles (all my car's life) and had been running HPDEs with it for the past 5 years.
My Kooks headers don't come anywhere close to the wires so I haven't been running any kool sox type protector. That said, I have seen that on LGMs one of the primaries can almost touch the wire so it would offer piece of mind so you can drive and forget about it.
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Right now I have the OEM wires with metal shields at the plugs but was thinking about the MSD Plug wires, no headers, YET...but in the future. Going to MSD I'll probably have to get the metal shields, plus socks? Not sure yet, but I'll be looking at it soon.
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My advice is to NOT use the metal shields. I have seen numerous cases of the metal shields causing a cylinder to misfire because the spark would come through the jacket and arc to the shield. I can not explain why they would do that because they are not grounded. Never-the-less I have seen the little blue arc with my own eyes. I took the shields off and it ran perfect. I would highly advise using something like firesleeves.
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Stick with OEM wires... they support over 1000 horses w/o issue. Plus, they have factory metal shields and they "click" on more positively than anything else out there.
I've been running oem wires for 80,000 miles (all my car's life) and had been running HPDEs with it for the past 5 years.
My Kooks headers don't come anywhere close to the wires so I haven't been running any kool sox type protector. That said, I have seen that on LGMs one of the primaries can almost touch the wire so it would offer piece of mind so you can drive and forget about it.
I've been running oem wires for 80,000 miles (all my car's life) and had been running HPDEs with it for the past 5 years.
My Kooks headers don't come anywhere close to the wires so I haven't been running any kool sox type protector. That said, I have seen that on LGMs one of the primaries can almost touch the wire so it would offer piece of mind so you can drive and forget about it.
I've heard the good virtues of stock wires here on CF before.
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