Accel wires not to happy

[Snake]

For starters my old 7mm wires had a stright boot to go on my cap and fit real tight.Thease 8mm Accel have the 90 boots and the fit is not all that tight on my cap:angry7:So what gives I did as the directions says.Is there a thicker tower for thease 90 degree boots to fit tighter,last thing is to have one or two wires pop off.Anyone else have this problim?

 

[cudaspaz]

Sometimes have to spread the metal contact inside the boot with a pair of pliers.

I don't like accel wires, had bad luck with them so has just about everyone else I know.

 

[Snake]

Sometimes have to spread the metal contact inside the boot with a pair of pliers.

I don't like accel wires, had bad luck with them so has just about everyone else I know.[/QUO This is the first time I had any problims with there wires.

 

[65Vart]

What kind of cap? you should feel a "click" when they seat.

 

[Snake]

What kind of cap? you should feel a "click" when they seat.

This cap was on the car when i got it,its red and has the brass ternamials.Thats all I know.

 

[MoparMuscleGuy]

I switched to Taylor Spiro Pros. You'll Love them.

 

[greenhornet]

I used to like Accel --- 30 years ago, now their crap... My local "bumper to bumper" store sales some "standard" brand grey 8mm wires and there cheap, I was totally impressed with them... I remember back in the day standard use to make the blue streak points, only brand of points I'd ever run...

 

[dgc333]

I have used Accel, MSD, Taylor and Moroso wires. They all worked and gave me decent life (actually changed them out after a few years for good measure not because they were bad). I used to be impressed with colored wires but they get crappy looking quick so I just get black these days.

One of the mopar rags did a wire comparison test a number of months ago where they did back to back drag strip runs and there was no performance difference between any of the 10 or so brands they tried.

I currently have Accel 8.8 wires on my 360. I allways get cut to fit wires (like to route them the way I want them) and the verison I purchased have the multi-angle boots for the plug end (allows me to bent the boots for 90 degrees on 5 and 7 so the wire goes under the header tube). Only thing I did notice about these wires is the 90 degree boots for the cap end were very thick making it a tight fit to squeeze a boot between adjacent locations that the wire was already on. The boots themselves fit the towers on the cap quite snuggley.