plug wires

[Boulder Bob]

Hi

Couldn't find any threads on this - if there is one, sorry.

I'm making my own plug wires. I use solid core, right? Can I just go to my local "speed shop" and buy bulk wire?

Any source suggestions?

I'm planning on reusing all connectors if they check out OK.

Same solid wire for coil-to-cap, right?

Thanks

Bob
'73 911S Targa

[Mudi]

if you are putting in an MSD unit then you need to upgrade per their specs.. I went down this road and finally decided to buy what I could find already made to fit.. Of course, too long, but what the heck..

[boxster03]

Are there really early 911's in Boulder?

[Neal Boysen]

I recently did this on my 71T, 2.2. I used bulk 8mm Taylor wire from the local speed shop and the stock plug connectors. I used crimp on connectors at the dist. cap and have not had any problems.

Is it right? I don't know, I posted here and at Pelican and had no response to the same basic question you posted.

Seems to work fine (maybe better than before) so good luck!

[edmayo]

I prefer to make my own since none of the kits are as good as original as far as I'm concerned. I use solid core 7 mm wire, it fits in the stock rubber separators and into the original plug ends. The original sets had the brass tips into the distributor cap soldered on (unchanged since 356 days) NONE of the kits do that. I unsolder the tips and solder onto the new wires. Good time to replace any broken separators and check the plug connector resistance, if over 3500 ohms replace them, of course the problem will be finding the same end, they are now black. Getting harder to find the OEM type with the screw in the end that screwed into the wire. Route the wires just as Porsche did for your particular engine. And yes same wire for coil to cap. Don't try to reinvent the wheel here, OEM stuff worked fine for 30 years.

[John Z Goriup]

Bob,

here's my advice. If you don't have it in your archives, call John Dilger, the gentleman who's responsible for publishing the ESReg newsletter, the "ESSES". Ask him to send you a back copy of Volume 16,, Number 1, Spring 2006, go to page 6, read the entire article on how to make your own plug wires and have at it. The author, John Gray, made me a set per his article for my car, and they are beautifully done and work fantastically well. The article is very comprehensive, gives you a bill of material and tells you precisely how to do it.

Good luck

JZG

[Zithlord]

+1 on the Esses article!

John

[Boulder Bob]

thanks for all the help

have a new rotor and cap on order and will check out the cap side today to see if the solder type connectors are there.

need to find a "speed shop" in the Denver area to get bulk wire.

[Mudi]

Bob, don't use Solid core if you are using an MSD unit... Bob

[Scooter 911]

Summit Racing carries bulk wire. They are out of Austin, but they are online as well: http://www.summitracing.com/