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Old 05-04-2010, 04:53 AM
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Ok, first off, the car is a 96 m6 and is completely stock. It will be that way for a while. I have read some threads that say the duralast wires from autozone will work perfectly fine with my stock car. I just purchased those last night. Now when i was on orellys site, i saw some msd streetfire wires for $45, right around the same price as the duralast. Which would you go with and has anyone had any experience with the streetfire msd's? I did buy the msd ones and they are the kind where you have to crimp on the ends yourself, which is not a huge deal. I also bought new spark plugs(ngk tr55). Do these have to be gapped? I have heard that your not suppose to gap them but are they the stock gap? Sorry for all the questions. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, mike
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I'd be putting on a set of stock AC-Delco wires.

You check the gap on any and every spark plug you install.
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The wires you bought are fine. You won't gain a thing by swapping them out for the MSD wires unless you want to impress your friends by telling you bought something from MSD.
Like shbox said, you gap all plugs prior to install.
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those plugs do come gapped, but you need to check to make sure they are right


after all of my experiences i would be using nothing less than a msd wire, or even a oem wire like shbox stated

if you put those cheap wires on there i would be willing to bet they are arcing withing a short time
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would say acdelco but the last time i called orielly, they wanted like 200 for them. i even called somewhere else and they gave me the same price
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Thats exactly why i didnt buy ac delco. Im not spending no 200 dollars for spark plug wires. Also, the gap has to be .50 right?
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Even here in Bahrain where we get ripped off by the dealer they are only 100$ :S



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