Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
One of my pet peeves is messy spark plug wiring. The Duster had it's wires routed beneath the headers when I bought it and I never liked that because the wires had a tendency to get grimy down there.
I ran them over the valve covers but without separators they looked like spaghetti.
I'm not a big fan of most of the spark plug wire holders on the market but I do like these cheapo ones made by Spectre. We used to get them for $15-$20 but now they sell for around $26.
We've used them on several motors already.
Our Charger's 512.
The 340 in my old '74 'Cuda.
The 318 that was in my '67 Barracuda.
The 408 that's in the Barracuda now.
The 402 that was in my son's '68 Chevelle.
The problem that I ran into was that the fenderwell headers kicked up too high off the heads to be able to install a set. I know that I could run a series of wire separators to tidy things up but I wanted to figure out a better way if I could.
After looking over photos of the engine it looked like I might have enough room to use those Spectre separators after all. Instead of attaching to the outside of the valve covers I thought I'd try the inside. So I temporarily robbed the set off of the 512 to see if it would work. I didn't want to buy another set until I was sure.
I'm liking it a lot. But I'll have to order another set of spark plug wires too. The current ones are too short to route them this way.
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One of my pet peeves is messy spark plug wiring. The Duster had it's wires routed beneath the headers when I bought it and I never liked that because the wires had a tendency to get grimy down there.
I ran them over the valve covers but without separators they looked like spaghetti.
I'm not a big fan of most of the spark plug wire holders on the market but I do like these cheapo ones made by Spectre. We used to get them for $15-$20 but now they sell for around $26.
We've used them on several motors already.
Our Charger's 512.
The 340 in my old '74 'Cuda.
The 318 that was in my '67 Barracuda.
The 408 that's in the Barracuda now.
The 402 that was in my son's '68 Chevelle.
The problem that I ran into was that the fenderwell headers kicked up too high off the heads to be able to install a set. I know that I could run a series of wire separators to tidy things up but I wanted to figure out a better way if I could.
After looking over photos of the engine it looked like I might have enough room to use those Spectre separators after all. Instead of attaching to the outside of the valve covers I thought I'd try the inside. So I temporarily robbed the set off of the 512 to see if it would work. I didn't want to buy another set until I was sure.
I'm liking it a lot. But I'll have to order another set of spark plug wires too. The current ones are too short to route them this way.
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