Thread: plug wire looms

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What would you guys recommend for wire looms? I'm getting ready to do my exhaust and the wire looms that are on the motor right now are toast so i want to replace them while i have it all apart. (this is for my 63 pick-up with 327) I'm leary to purchase the aluminum looms with nylon clamps because that is what i have now and the nylon clamps have all broken from the heat (i belive they are cheapies the previous owner put on) however i've also read about spark crossover when running wires through an all metal loom (they look very nice but i'm not interested in detonation), that leaves the simpler style plastic seperators but those look cheap.

So......which style would you guys recommend? A specific brand? I don't mind spending the money to get a very high quality set as I would like it to last a long time, thanks for the opinions as usual.

I don't buy the spark cross-over stuff. True cross-over (not insulation failure) is due to inductive coupling between an energized and adjacent non-energized conductor. The metal jacket from those types of billet looms around the wire would act to compensate (or contain) any transient magnetic fields escaping the wire. This effect would in fact safeguard you from cross talk.

Speaking of cross talk, plug wire fields are already quite small as the pulse sent down a wire is not very energetic. Yeah they are energetic enough to make for RF interference in the case of solid core wires, but this is much different than inductive magnetic field coupling.

Kitz

Well thats good to know, I guess I'll be buying the billet looms. On the subject of wires though, as that is my next question. Solid core or spiral core? i gather for street use spiral core is the way to go. Is that correct? Any advantages in going with solid core wires?

For the street you want spiral core wires ..............

Some ignitions are not even compatible with solid core wires ...........

Kitz

i like the R.M wire looms have use them on some cars i like them you can get them thru summit or jeg,s ?? have not did any in a while still think you can get them

specter makes for cheap a nice seat of chrome looms that run along the side of your valve covers and drop each wire right where it belongs.... the look nice and are a lot less expensive than similar products... the only thing i dont like is that a lot of specter stuff breaks.... but i haven't had any problems with mine yet

The specter ones are on there now, the nylon or plastic hold downs are all broken. I ordered the billet zooms hold downs from summit, they were $56 which is a bit pricy but everything else is $30 plus so I figured it was a worthwhile investment. Yeah, I did some diggin on those solid core, sounds like a pain in the rear, i'll stick with spiral. thanks guys!