delteq and arcing wires
11-05-2005, 05:50 PM
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delteq and arcing wires i just changed my plug wires and plugs cause i figured it was my problem with the stumbling and all that stuff. i ended up finding 2 wires that were nearly burned in half. so i had a smile on my face thinking i would finally have it figured out. so i put some taylor spiro pros on and some delco rapidfire plugs and soon as the car gets warm its doing the same thing. and i can see wires arcing. they are brand new and none of them are burned. anywhere they touch each other or close to some metal they arc. even on the dang wire seperators. am i using the wrong kind of wires or something for the delteq? im bout to just say screw it all together. 
11-05-2005, 07:07 PM
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if your wires are still arcing could be shitty wires, never tried those always used their thundervolt wires. are you using the metal wire separators? try switching to the nylon ones if you are. also make sure the wires arent touching. that many volts flowing through a thin wire jumps will try to jump where ever it can. could also explain why your tubes are glowing. headers will usually glow from overly rich conditions but can also glow from extremely lean conditions.
11-05-2005, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by FlamingChicken
if your wires are still arcing could be shitty wires, never tried those always used their thundervolt wires. are you using the metal wire separators? try switching to the nylon ones if you are. also make sure the wires arent touching. that many volts flowing through a thin wire jumps will try to jump where ever it can. could also explain why your tubes are glowing. headers will usually glow from overly rich conditions but can also glow from extremely lean conditions.
11-06-2005, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by FlamingChicken
hope the metal separators is the only problem. it took me two weeks to find out my miss was an intermittent arcing on the primary header. definitely no fun.
11-06-2005, 09:41 PM
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I made some custom msd for my car. Do you have the valve cover mount or the radiator mount? I went with the valve cover because, to me going from the radiator was way too far of a distance (a lot of resistance).
11-07-2005, 10:20 AM
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Taylor wires are known to cause problems. I recently put some over the valve cover wires on my car from elite. I had a bad miss also, and about pulled my hair out trying to chase down the miss. Well, after it went to the shop, it turned out to be a couple of wires got crossed and went to the wrong terminals on the opti. I checked and rechecked the wire orderr, and still overlooked it. It happens that way when you've about had it. So go back and check your wire order, and recheck. Hell, have a friend check it also.
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11-07-2005, 03:47 PM
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it mostly starts acting up and stumbling when the car heats up. when you first start it up its fine but after its ran long enough to heat up its down hill from there
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I just ordered the taylor over the valve cover setup, is it pretty good? I got the ones that mount on top of the valve cover. I'm on my like 5th set of wires and am tired of buying wires, so hopefully this will be my last set, i am doing it right this time.... hopefully
11-07-2005, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by imnotplutonium
I just ordered the taylor over the valve cover setup, is it pretty good? I got the ones that mount on top of the valve cover. I'm on my like 5th set of wires and am tired of buying wires, so hopefully this will be my last set, i am doing it right this time.... hopefully
well if yours work out good let me know
11-07-2005, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by 1BadAsZ
it mostly starts acting up and stumbling when the car heats up. when you first start it up its fine but after its ran long enough to heat up its down hill from there
11-07-2005, 08:50 PM
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I've also seen opti's break down after they heat up. How old is yours?
I can e-mail some one pics of my delteq set up/routing, I don't have a place to host them.
I can e-mail some one pics of my delteq set up/routing, I don't have a place to host them.
11-08-2005, 07:42 AM
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The arching starts showing signs of stumbling, etc when the engine heats up because it comes out of enrichment mode after cold start up. Its probably always there, you just can't tell as much because hte car is running richer. Its the taylor wires. I just threw a set away that were arching out of the boots to the head. take a look under the hood with it running in the dark tonight, you'll see.
11-08-2005, 07:53 AM
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so most taylor wires are bad? I bought the universal ones and will be putting them on this weekend. I guess i'll find out then. are they bad out of box or over time?
11-08-2005, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by imnotplutonium
so most taylor wires are bad? I bought the universal ones and will be putting them on this weekend. I guess i'll find out then. are they bad out of box or over time?
11-08-2005, 11:00 AM
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yea those are what i got the 8mm universal fit. damn, well are there any other universal fit wires? since im doing the over the valve cover method i need them extra long
11-08-2005, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Formula WS6
I've also seen opti's break down after they heat up. How old is yours?
I can e-mail some one pics of my delteq set up/routing, I don't have a place to host them.
I can e-mail some one pics of my delteq set up/routing, I don't have a place to host them.
11-08-2005, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by JasonK94Z
The arching starts showing signs of stumbling, etc when the engine heats up because it comes out of enrichment mode after cold start up. Its probably always there, you just can't tell as much because hte car is running richer. Its the taylor wires. I just threw a set away that were arching out of the boots to the head. take a look under the hood with it running in the dark tonight, you'll see.
yeah ive looked at it the past couple nights...i regapped my plugs to 35 and some of them still have that "glow"