What are the best wires to use with TES headers? Do they require wires with different boots or anything? Would Accel 300+ be ok?

 

I went with 90* angle ones and they work fine, the only thing is you might want to either get wire looms or tie straps and make sure the wires don't hit the headers, I had this happen to me and couldn't figure out why my carburetor was backfiring, a wire was resting right on the header and toasted it.

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'86 IROC
T-TOPS, TINTED WINDOWS, BRAKE LIGHT BLACKOUTS
GM GOODWRENCH 350
EDELBROCK TES HEADERS
FLOWMASTER
EDELBROCK 600CFM CARB.
KN AIRFILTER
ACCEL HEI DISTRIBUTOR
160* Stat
2:73 GEARS
Rebuilt 700R4, with manual valve body
B&M Megashifter
Soon to be installed
Exhaust Cut-Out and different gears, either 3:73 or 3:42
"There is nothing more addicting than speed"

 

get a build your own set that uses 90* boots, and have plenty of twist ties and wire looms available to make sure everything gets tied up. Ive been through 3 sets of wires in the past year because i failed to keep them off the headers. But i think i got pretty well this time using Moroso Blue Max 8mm custom fit wires.

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My 1986 Z28
GM350, T-5, 3.23's, lots of go fast goodies, 4th gen Firebird interior etc...
85 IROC w/ 1364 miles!

You'll always find what you've lost in the last place you look

R.I.P Dale Earnhardt

 

I'm using Taylor 90° end wires, routed in the absolutely stock location, except that on the pass side, there's no place to put the looms that GM clips to the exhaust manifold heat stove, so I have them tie-wrapped to that little vertical brace for the shock tower. The driver's side is bone stock.

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"So many Mustangs, so little time..."
ICON Motorsports

 

Well, I sure thought the 300+ "Race" wires would have been good enough, but the worthless pieces of crap started cracking from the heat of my TES headers, and they never came in contact with the headers. The idle would get rough in the car for no reason, and after a check on the wires I'd find another one cracked. I switched in Taylor 8mm wires in the same routing locations and haven't had one single wire go bad since. The damn Accel POS wires didn't even last a month before they started cracking one by one... That along with the total POS Accel Blueprint Distributor that I was cursed enough to get stuck with was enough to make me swear off Accel forever.

I've heard the Accel wires will work alright if you use the heat sleeve things that are extra. My Taylors don't need em to last though...

Oh yeah, mine are all 90 degree boots.

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Ray87Z
-Vortec headed 350.
86 IROC w/ a cammed 305 TPI.
Formerly Ray86IROC.
www.inter-scape.com/Ray

[This message has been edited by Ray87Z (edited June 14, 2001).]