An old hotrodder trick... Use Packard 440 for the plug wires and carbon wire for the coil to distributor wire. Waaaayyyyy back then, we used either MSD or Accel wire. Wire wound carbon core. Jim Stan Wilder wrote: > > no one in a 10 block radius of you will be able to listen to their > radio- > ------------------------------ > Not true at all; the static disturbance is just about 100 yards or one > city block. > An 85 GL has electronic ignition and requires a resistor coil wire. > Only 83 and below standard point set ignitions require a solid core coil > wire. Many new wire sets of 80-83 wire sets come with a resistor wire > (still need the resistor type rotor arm). I've also seen wire sets with a > suppressor (junk) in the coil wire. |
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