Wires, coils, and elephants

[sailingfc at dslextreme.com (Dick Y Wong)]

I run blue silicone(8mm, I think), silver coated, stranded copper wires
(0.00 ohms resistance).  I bought them way back (20 years ago?) from APS.
It was a DIY kit.  Had to strip, crimp and solder each end.  Ran the
original factory coil until about a year ago.  Thought 25 years might be
getting kind of old, so I bought a Bosch Blue Coil.  Seems to run okay.
Didn't notice anything different.
GL.
-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
95 Passat GLX
Second Owner



-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Scourge
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:29 AM
To: Rocco list
Subject: Wires, coils, and elephants


Hey guys(yeah yeah, girls too, lol),
    My plug wires are dying. When it's dark I can see them arc to the head a
little(mostly just #3, but water doesn't affect how the car runs). I think
my coil is old and tired too(no Idea how old it really is).
I have ye olde JH/ABA combo kicking. 10:1 compression.
My Questions: What kinds of wires do you guys use? What kind of coils? Any
advantages to MSD over accel or any other generic coils? Any advantage to
fatty wires?
I have taylor 8mm wires on the car now, they've been following me from car
to car.

thanx
-George
(Got ya, there aren't really any elephants!!)
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