Plug wires - 8v

[jsoutherland16 at comcast.net (Jeff Southerland)]

Well, I'll chime in here also. My value for the no.1 wire was 108,000 ohms,
not infinite, not slightly more or less than Bentley values, but just plain
way high. They are stock wires with lots of miles and age, so they are due
anyway.
About the air gap theory, my experience is that when you have a fouled plug,
sometimes you can remove the wire and just lay it back on the plug, not all
the way back on, so the at the spark has to jump to the plug, and the plug
will clear up. I have done this many times, and it does work, temporarily,
but it is more of a test for the plug, not the wire. So the air gap theory
does have some basis in fact. I would not want to run this way full time
though. Thanks for all the help,  Jeff

>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: L F [mailto:rocco16v@netzero.net]
>   Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:05 AM
>   To: Patrick Bureau
>   Subject: Re: Plug wires - 8v
>
>
>   PB,
>   I wouldn't.
>   Reason #1: the Bentley has been proven wrong before and, more
importantly,
>   Reason #2: those resistance values that the Bentley gives are the
> tolerances for new, stock wires.  Any values you get when you measure your
> wires that fall outside those published values simply mean that your wires
> do not meet the same specs that they had to meet when new....if they read
5
> ohms less...or 5 ohms more....than the Bentley's numbers, are they 'bad'?
>    If a new set of SuperTurboFlameThrowerFatWires don't meet the Bentley's
> values for stock components, does that mean they are defective?
>    See where I'm going with this?
>     Again, there is one theory that says a small air-gap in the wires
> (infinite resistance) helps build up voltage so that the plug actually
> receives a higher-voltage spark.  I'm not so sure I agree with this
theory,
> but it is one that has been hanging around for years.   If I hear of
> something relevent that I'm not sure I go along with, I'll tell you guys
and
> let you draw your own conclusions.
>     I've been around long enough to have learned this: don't take anything
> at face value.
>   Peace.
>
>   Larry