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Old Aug 17, 2007 | 10:09 AM
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Where is the best place to buy for the plug wires and spark plug boots?

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Old Aug 17, 2007 | 12:03 PM
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Where is the best place to buy for the plug wires and spark plug boots?

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Check around if you need to as there are several sources. I had good luck at Thunder Racing.
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Where is the best place to buy for the plug wires and spark plug boots?
Not much difference in Koolsox price vendor-to-vendor.

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Not much difference in Koolsox price vendor-to-vendor.

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On plug wires there is though.

BTW, I was reading the article about you last night. Good stuff!
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BTW, I was reading the article about you last night. Good stuff!
Thanks, LoneStarFRC.

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SUMMIT RACING or JEG'S also has them...maybe by a different name of manufacturer.
That is a good article on Ranger!
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Just a word of caution - they don't work very well.

I put them on 2 plug wires on my driver's side that were fairly close to the headers. 3 and 7 I believe. The wires melted underneath the "kool socks" very quickly (a few weeks as far as I can tell), and the sock itself was untouched. It actually caused a lot of problems because I didn't realize the plug wire was burned because it was covered by the sock. I had to remove them to inspect them and that's when I found they had been severely melted. I switched back to stock gm heatshields and zero problems since then.

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