Will -
The main reason is that even with the resistor plugs, the nice solid core wires
will act as a very good antenna and emit loads of RFI that could affect the
Pertronics from the triggering perspective, not so much the load due to lower
resistance of the wires. I think the same warning is issued with some of the
MSD units as the triggering can get messed up with a lot of RF Noise. Easiest
way to find out is to cut to fit and install. If a problem, then trash them
;-). Plenty of very good wires that will do the job, but I hear you on the
having them and not wanting to wasting them! I used to run them on another car
and always had problems getting inductive timming lights to work with it and
the ignition that was on it.
Sandy
----- Original Message ----
From: Will Seay <wseay@embarqmail.com>
To: Theo Smit <tsmit@shaw.ca>
Cc: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:27:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Pertronix and Solid-Conductor Ignition Wires
Theo,
No, I'm not planning to make a fuelie out of my Tiger or anything like that.
The simple reason for using solids is that I have them. I bought a set of
repro solid-conductor wires some years ago, long before I bought the
Pertronix unit. The wires should look correct under the hood, and, with
resistor plugs, should provide adequate RFI suppression. My past experience
with resistor wires was that they were prone to become intermittent and that
connecting an Ohm meter to a wire and wiggling it to see if it's the bad one
is also the best way to make a good wire into a bad one. I'm not hard-over
on solid-conductor wires, I just don't want to put a good set in the dumper
because Pertronics may have made an unnecessarily-broad statement about
solid-conductor wires. It seems to me that a device connected to the
primary of the coil (Pertronix) would find it hard to tell the difference
between a distributed resistance in series with the plug gap vs and a lumped
resistance in series with the gap on the secondary of the coil. Obviously
Pertronix is the authority on this, so I'll ask them. Just thought that
maybe someone on the list had run into this before.
________________________
Will Seay - B382001570
----- Original Message -----
What is your justification for running solid core wires? ...
Theo
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