y80 plug wires

[wagner-racing16-s]

on a yamato 80 can you use any high performance plug wires and do they have to be solid wires?

[oldracer]

Y 80 plug wires

My experience seeing stock racers of the 60's try anything but solid wires, the
most was maybe a POP when trying to start. Put in solid wires, the engines
started right up. To much resistence while cranking by hand . Can not
say things changed. GOOD LUCK.
Ye Olde Desert Geezer

[hydroplay]

You can use any type of spark plug wire you choose. In the dark ages, solid metalic conductors were the norm because any resistance wires were pretty bad. However, today plain metallic wires are becoming more rare because restince wires are far better and give electrical shielding for computers, etc. I use a sprial-wound resistance wire on all our Yamato stuff and it works great although it takes some adapting with the 8mm outside diameter.

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

hmmmm....sounds like you and pops figured out the problem from Alexandria this summer. Great Job!! See ya at Franklin.

[oldracer]

Y 80 plug wires

Glad to hear of the progress on ignition wires. Well, we all live and learn over the years.

[wagner-racing16-s]

yeah from my plug wire falling over the spark plug a few times i blew a hole in the side of my coil and the spark plug wires were loose on the inside of the coil. so just gotta fix it