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Certainly won't hurt to reuse them. I've also added woven plug wire heat protectors (like Accel brand) to provide additional heat insulation, especially with headers. They're also wide enough to slip over the metal heat shields too.
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Why? I don't get why you are replacing the wires. Is your 2010 already over 100,000 miles?
I didn't see long tube headers or anything special on your engine in the picture.
At any rate I would reuse the metal tubes to keep the heat off the boots and reduce static radio interference.
Tom
I didn't see long tube headers or anything special on your engine in the picture.
At any rate I would reuse the metal tubes to keep the heat off the boots and reduce static radio interference.
Tom
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St. Jude Donor '06-13,'16-'17, '19
But I would still use the metal tubes to keep heat off the boots and to reduce possible static interference on the radio and other electronic devices on the car.
Tom
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The MSD wires are designed so the plug boot is flexible and can be positioned at whatever angle is necessary to clear headers. The metal shields prevent adjusting the MSD boot. So I run mine without the shields and have no heat problem because of the clearance I can get by adjustment.
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The MSD wires are designed so the plug boot is flexible and can be positioned at whatever angle is necessary to clear headers. The metal shields prevent adjusting the MSD boot. So I run mine without the shields and have no heat problem because of the clearance I can get by adjustment.
Exactly, using the shields would defeat the reason I bought MSD wires in the first place.I purchased mine from 099Blancoss, a forum vendor for $58 free shipping. That was a couple of years ago,
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