Solid wire ignition

67Dart273 said

Well then I suggest you call up FBO on the fone. They are the ones who "engineered" the thing. NObody, and I mean NO BODY in the commercial world EVER tells the story up front. They NEVER put out in plain 'Murican what will or will not. Or what does or does not. Or what is or is not. They hide EVER ee THANG behind a bunch of advertising hype, and if there IS SOME warning in the destructions, they don't EVER explain WHY or just WHAT are the consequences.

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That is exactly the rub. I find nothing on the FBO site about NOT using solid plug wires with their box. I did ask FBO if I could use a solid COIL wire...they said NO. OK. I put together a spiral-core coil wire. Only then did I think...wait...I didn't ask about solid PLUG wires! I asked FBO that question. No response. Given their response to my coil wire question, there is NO reason to think the answer to the solid PLUG wire question would be, 'Sure. No problem.' Fact is...the coil wire operates at a MUCH higher frequency. Given that, it did seem a possibility that the coil wire would have to be of a suppression nature BUT the plug wires would not.

I doubt testing/verification of that issue ever happened. 'Ya never know until you ask though.

I do absolutely and with certainty of resolute mindset agree with EVER ee THANG you said.

...as unfortunate as such facts may be.


67Dart273: My first car was a '66 Dart GT with an HP-273. I was a fool for ever getting rid of that car. Unfortunately, The Fool repeatedly did similar dumb things with a '68 440 R/T Charger and two other 440 Chargers...another '68 and a '69 and a '73 440 Challenger.

I've been stoopid most of my life.