spark wire question

[vkalloo]

which size spark wire....8.5 or 10mm for magnecore

 

[midnght]

which size spark wire....8.5 or 10mm for magnecore

10mm if you can get it. The one with the least resistance, most of the time it is the larger wire.

 

[Injected]

10mm if you can get it. The one with the least resistance, most of the time it is the larger wire.

I'd like to add that "resistance" is not the only thing to consider. This is for refrence purposes. For more info try Magnecor's Website.
This is from Magnecor's website.

Lately, long established companies marketing reliable, efficient and powerful ignition systems have also become surprisingly reckless with claims for the generic ignition wires they include in their product line. For whatever reason, most ignition system marketers in the USA are obsessed with the notion that a "low-resistance" ignition wire line (with the marketer's name printed onto low-grade generic ignition cable) needs to be included as part of any ignition "package" sold through mass-merchandisers and speed shop outlets. Production vehicle manufacturers have also joined the frenzy.

Because of the fierce competition amongst aftermarket ignition system marketers selling branded generic "low-resistance" ignition wire lines through mass-merchandisers and speed shops, every marketer needs to find a reason (factual or otherwise) why their ignition wires are better than similar (and sometimes identical) wires offered by their competitors. Unfortunately for owners of late model vehicles (or earlier vehicles fitted with high-tech aftermarket electronic components), improved quality and adequate suppression is never a reason to be better, as no marketer sees justification in improving their ignition wire line without either exposing themselves to a financial loss, or jeopardizing their relationship with mass-merchandisers and some speed shops — because to do so (and remain profitable) the wholesale price of their ignition wires would rise substantially above those offered by their competitors.

The reason ignition wires with "low-resistance" spiral conductors proliferate the performance aftermarket is that these wires are cheap to manufacture and are easy to sell because "low-resistance" conductors are falsely promoted by marketers as being able to produce more powerful sparks. A classic example is a Ford Motorsport wire set (consisting of cheaply-made generic "low-resistance" wires marked "Ford Motorsport") for a V8 Mustang selling for as low as $42 at speed shops, while Ford's original equipment Motorcraft carbon conductor wire set for the same Mustang sells for $84 at a Ford dealership!

This situation makes one suspect that either the original limited-life Motorcraft carbon conductor wire set is grossly overpriced, or that the Ford Motorsport "low-resistance" conductor wire set is very cheaply constructed. Unfortunately for US consumers, either suspicion is correct — few, if any production vehicle owners in the USA would disagree that genuine spare parts are anything other than overpriced — and Ford Motorsport wire sets, like all other brands of generic "low-resistance" conductor wires currently proliferating the performance aftermarket, are cheaply constructed to compete with other similar or identical wire sets offered by other marketers.

Our competitors' policy of selling cheap "low-resistance" conductor wires in the performance aftermarket is by no means unrealistic, as hundreds of millions of engines are still out there which are not electronically managed as well as older vehicles with none of the electronic on-board equipment effected by EMI that Magnecor Race Wires are designed to suppress. Heat problems suffered by wires with insulating jackets vastly inferior to the jackets used on Magnecor Race Wires can generally be overcome by fitting additional sleeves (which can cost as much, if not more, than the wire set itself) over the spark plug wires. For 22 years, Magnecor has also marketed (for non-electronically managed engines) an improved version of the "low-resistance" wires our competitors currently market.

It has become a very profitable ritual at a huge number of service shops to replace endless numbers of expensive electronic components on recent model vehicles to solve all sorts of engine running problems simply solved (usually as the last resort) by using ignition wires that properly suppress EMI.

'Sup Midnght.

 

[steve]

The diameter of the wire is the least important factor to consider. I can assure you that those expensive magnacore's will not make you car run any faster or better than a set on NGK, Accel, or MSD wires.

Steve

 

[Defiant]

Five hours since the last time the "which wires" question was asked.

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