Which spark plug wires?
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Instructor
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: Austin Texas
I appreciate all of the advice; however, the last plugs on my car lasted for over 60k miles which included cross country trips, easily over 100 runs down a drag strip and over a dozen weekend racing events and never needed sleeves even with the headers. They were changed because I felt like it was time not because anything was wrong, and my Vette has not run as well since. Plus I could have the Taylors by Monday and the best I could find for the Z06 wires was 5 - 7 business days.
Team Owner
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Virginia Beach
CI 3-5-6-7-8 Veteran
Anything other than stock wires (or autolites) and you're wasing money.
The stock iginition on these cars is good to over 1000 horses... ask any big tuner. There is no need for the fancy MSD coils or expensive wires, they do nothing.
We have individual coil on plug w/ 6" wires... it's hard to improve upon. The only time you'll notice a performance gain are if your mind is playing tricks on you or you had something wrong before the swap.
Plus, the oem wires have oem heat shields and the wires click into place w/ a very positive connection which most aftermarket wires don't do.
If your headers are very close get kool-sox or fire sleeves. I have Kooks and they don't come close at all... I've been running HPDEs for 4 years w/o any extra wire protection other than the oem shields w/o issue.
The stock iginition on these cars is good to over 1000 horses... ask any big tuner. There is no need for the fancy MSD coils or expensive wires, they do nothing.
We have individual coil on plug w/ 6" wires... it's hard to improve upon. The only time you'll notice a performance gain are if your mind is playing tricks on you or you had something wrong before the swap.
Plus, the oem wires have oem heat shields and the wires click into place w/ a very positive connection which most aftermarket wires don't do.
If your headers are very close get kool-sox or fire sleeves. I have Kooks and they don't come close at all... I've been running HPDEs for 4 years w/o any extra wire protection other than the oem shields w/o issue.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Oklahoma City OK
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I like Taylor wires and have used them on many of my cars, but Taylor "spiral core" wires caused noise on the radio of my '02 Z06. When you change wires again go with the red GM performance wires, they worked the best of the six different brands I tried on my car.
