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Title: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Troy Palmer on May 16, 2012, 19:58:49 pm I have started collecting parts and pieces for my next motor (old school build). What was the plug wire of choice in the late 70's and early 80's (Taylor)? Size (8mm)? Color (Yellow)? I will be running a 010.
Thanks Troy Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Rennsurfer on May 16, 2012, 20:13:36 pm Most of us were running yellow ones. Later, I went to orange... then, to Bosch black. I'll never go back.
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Rick Meredith on May 16, 2012, 20:20:09 pm I ran blue Taylors then like Mark went back to Bosch
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: glenn on May 16, 2012, 20:28:25 pm Bosch black wires with brown boots.
(http://www.glenn-ring.com/temp/old3.jpg) I also ran Mallory 7mm yellow wires. Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Rennsurfer on May 16, 2012, 23:32:50 pm Currently running Bosch gray ones with Bosch/VW Type 3 ninety degree ends at the distributor cap. Same looking setup I had thirty plus years ago on my orange car. Thank you, Dave Galassi & Dave Rosique!!
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: TexasTom on May 17, 2012, 00:28:06 am If it's Period High Perf you're looking for ... We ran Yellow 7mm wires; Accels???
I remember it like it was yesterday .... ;) TxT Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Cheesepanzer on May 17, 2012, 01:41:50 am Troy, yellow was definitely the color of choice for quite a while, but some had red as well. As for the brand, I remember "Stinger" wires and "Hays", but to be honest I think we all just picked up the package sold by SCS and Autohaus.
A neat "custom" trick was to find Type 3 cap ends from Pick-a-Part and stick them on our 009's. It was a nice way to tuck the wires down away from the carb linkage. 8) Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: glenn on May 17, 2012, 01:59:00 am A neat "custom" trick was to find Type 3 cap ends from Pick-a-Part and stick them on our 009's. It was a nice way to tuck the wires down away from the carb linkage. Bosch used to make 009 caps with the terminals on the side. I still have one.8) Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Rick Meredith on May 17, 2012, 06:38:56 am A neat "custom" trick was to find Type 3 cap ends from Pick-a-Part and stick them on our 009's. It was a nice way to tuck the wires down away from the carb linkage. Bosch used to make 009 caps with the terminals on the side. I still have one.8) Weren't those off of a Saab or a Volvo I seem to remember that from when I worked at BAP. Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Sarge on May 17, 2012, 15:05:34 pm WHAT??? No mention of Packard 440?? sheeeeeesh!!! :(
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: johnl on May 17, 2012, 15:41:13 pm WHAT??? No mention of Packard 440?? sheeeeeesh!!! :( We use to buy it by the spool and make our own................ ;) ;) Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: 70slooker on May 17, 2012, 16:28:35 pm Hey sarge! I found a guy selling a repop version of the 440s claims they are even made the same way!!
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Erlend / bug66 on May 17, 2012, 16:30:53 pm Isn't it better with a good spark than looks? Or am I missing something..?
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Rick Meredith on May 17, 2012, 17:48:56 pm WHAT??? No mention of Packard 440?? sheeeeeesh!!! :( We wanted to be able to hear our radios without buzzing! ;D Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Troy Palmer on May 18, 2012, 02:07:30 am Thank you everyone for the feedback. I like the type three flat top connectors and this email has me search for period correct wire now.
Troy Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: kingsburgphil on May 18, 2012, 02:23:17 am Since no one mentioned it, I will. We tried to use the "black" non resistor Bosch plug connectors when ever possible. They may have played hell with AM radios,
but they never failed. Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Sarge on May 18, 2012, 19:47:46 pm My matched set of three... ;)
Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: hotrodsurplus on May 31, 2012, 10:07:40 am Radios are for suckers with engines not worth listening to.
Fancy colored plug wires are for engines that can't impress you with their power. Packard 440 is great solid-conductor (non-suppressed) wire and plausible for '60s and '70s for pretty much everything. It has a copper core--you can't really get any more efficient than that. One caveat, though: the noise that non-suppressed ignitions emit will kill the solid-state guts in electronic ignitions and maybe alternators. It shouldn't matter, though; anyone so concerned about period correctness would run points and a generator in the first place (the ambitious claims made by fancy ignition companies are mostly hogwash anyway). And 440 goes with magnetos like peas go with carrots (can't use a suppressed wire with a mag). It's about $1.50 a foot from Restoration Supply Co. in Escondiddle. www.restorationstuff.com Or just take some lacquer thinner or acetone to the print on Bosch wires and be done with it. The silicone jacket doesn't have that super-black, slick-rubber finish that old wires do but most people are either too young to know the difference or too old to care. 440 does look neat, tho with that fancy print. Plus it lasts forever. This set was installed with this flat-cap Mallory when Johnson was still in office. [attachment=1] Title: Re: Period correct plug wires for last 70's engine build? Post by: Sarge on May 31, 2012, 15:41:26 pm ....."Radios are for suckers with engines not worth listening to. Fancy colored plug wires are for engines that can't impress you with their power." ;D PERFECT!!! |