Spark plug wires question

Todd Phenneger tquattroguy at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 27 16:12:18 EST 2003


Why not swap the Cap/Wires from one vehicle to the other and see
if the problem changes with the wires or if the same car still
has weak spark?
l8r
  Todd

--- Konstantin Bogach <konstantin.bogach at morganstanley.com>
wrote:
> Hi.
> To my surprise I discovered that my two 200tq have different
> resistance
> of spark plug wires.  Both Bosch with loom, but one has ~6200
> Ohm and
> another ~5000 Ohm.  The spec per Bentley is 5 KOhm.  The car
> with ~6
> KOhm wires has good spark.  Spark tester measures 20 KV on
> coil wire and
> 10-14 KV next to spark plug.  The car with right (5 KOhm)
> wires has low
> KV on the coil wire (coil or power stage is a suspect) so I
> can not
> compare KVs measured next to plugs on two cars.
> 
> My question:  Is wire resistance different for different
> model/make?
> Does it mean that I have wrong wires?
> 
> Thank you.
> Konstantin.
> 
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