plug wire question

frank13 on July 28th 2010, 5:20 pm

ok this may be a really dumb question but here goes...

why arent plug wires all the same legnth....i mean if they are different sizes would it in theory take longer for the spark to travel to farther away plugs vs the close plugs to the distrib.....

we go through the trouble of making headers equal length why arent plug wires equal length

AZFairlane on July 28th 2010, 6:01 pm

Electricity moves a little faster than exhaust gases. If you were to get a very sensitive ohm meter, I don't think you would be able to read the difference in the plug wires. There is only a few inches difference. If you do measure a difference, then you most likely have a bad wire. The difference in time per inch of wire is .000000000084 of one second. Not really much to concern yourself with.

bbf-falcon on July 28th 2010, 7:03 pm

Rick Gorski was a interesting guy to listen about wires. He was testing Harolds wires and he said ONE of his wires had more ohms than 4 sets of his firecore 50's. And he also said that THAT cylinder that THAT wire was on was probably running FAT Shocked

342g on July 28th 2010, 7:33 pm

That must be what's wrong with me, too many ohms, cause I'm definately running "FAT" Twisted Evil

billandlori on July 28th 2010, 7:44 pm

342g wrote:That must be what's wrong with me, too many ohms, cause I'm definately running "FAT"

Only if they are chocolate covered ohms. The salted ones are OK. Laughing

Bill

342g on July 28th 2010, 7:57 pm

Wait a second, I can't run, too many fat ohms. Laughing

bb429power on July 28th 2010, 8:26 pm

bbf-falcon wrote:Rick Gorski was a interesting guy to listen about wires. He was testing Harolds wires and he said ONE of his wires had more ohms than 4 sets of his firecore 50's. And he also said that THAT cylinder that THAT wire was on was probably running FAT

So are the wires they were selling at Norwalk good? I thought they were selling firecore50's there? confused

richter69 on July 28th 2010, 8:59 pm

I understand the whole one wire is better than the other, hell I have a set of the Moroso Race wires myself...............but show me some proof on a dyno or datalogger equiped racecar where a high dollar wireset is making more power than say a 50 set like Ford racing sells............

69F100 on July 28th 2010, 9:31 pm

We had a spark plug wire plant down here Prestalite they closed last year I think. Rick went and help a buddy clean out the plant and he got big box of wires.The wires he got was Accel,and Mallery wires they made all different brands one other I can remember is Autolite can't remember all the brands.I had a friend that worked for them he told me that the wire part(exp.7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.8 wire) is made the same for all different brands when the wire came out of the machine it was put on a roll then carried to a machine that put the label on them would put different names on the same wire.They are few different plug wire makers,but a bunch of different company names.

cool40 on July 28th 2010, 9:40 pm

69F100 wrote:We had a spark plug wire plant down here Prestalite they closed last year I think. Rick went and help a buddy clean out the plant and he got big box of wires.The wires he got was Accel,and Mallery wires they made all different brands one other I can remember is Autolite can't remember all the brands.I had a friend that worked for them he told me that the wire part(exp.7.0, 7.5, 8.0, 8.8 wire) is made the same for all different brands when the wire came out of the machine it was put on a roll then carried to a machine that put the label on them would put different names on the same wire.They are few different plug wire makers,but a bunch of different company names.

kinda like cam's and lifter's. Laughing

richter69 on July 28th 2010, 9:46 pm

I'm not dissin' a guys product.............but if a guys ignition box, coil, dizzy etc etc is all up to par a good 8mm or equivalent wire should be just as good.

Now if the box is not big enough for the job a trick wire might look like a "HeRo"................... Laughing

cool40 on July 28th 2010, 10:41 pm

richter69 wrote:I'm not dissin' a guys product.............but if a guys ignition box, coil, dizzy etc etc is all up to par a good 8mm or equivalent wire should be just as good.

Now if the box is not big enough for the job a trick wire might look like a "HeRo"...................

sounds like a new product line! HeRo FiRe WiRe Cool

elimn8u on July 29th 2010, 8:13 am

Well, we switched over to the FireCore50 wires at the beginning of last season and the car not only ran quicker and faster at the track it's consistency and ease of firing up has never been better. We've run the Ford Motorsport wires and the Msd wires and never had any bad results with either sets but the results with the FireCore's have been just that much better...we added them to our line of products that we sell because we were so impressed with them. Rick had a blown-alky setup that was only getting a handful of passes out of a comepititors wires (coilwire in particular) and since switching to the FireCore's has not had any performance losses diue to the wires....so I would have to say that No, not all wires are created equal.
The technical info is on www.firecore50.com www.customwiresets.com
We do stock a few sets...mainly the Ford stuff but some Mopar/Chevy as well.
Gene

the Coug on July 29th 2010, 8:28 am

I would like to see dyno pulls of an engine with a good set of wires and then the exact same engine with your wires no other changes... then you have a comparison...

Randy

Larry Williams on July 29th 2010, 8:41 am

342g wrote:Wait a second, I can't run, too many fat ohms.

Don't run, drive!!!

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