[Tigers] Pertronix and Solid-Conductor Ignition Wires

[Sandy Ganz]

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 at embarqmail.com>
To: Theo Smit <tsmit at shaw.ca>
Cc: tigers at 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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