- Location
- Colorado
I searched and searched and I think I put together a pretty choice set up for a quick "tune up", at least as far as spark is concerned. Plugs seem to be highly debated, a lot of folks favor Champion truck plugs and/ or NGK., autolights a runner up. Gimmicky plugs such as bosh iridium etc etc our vehicles tend to hate- exception to every rule of course but why spend more?
The main thing I wanted to document is the wires, cap,and rotor I finally found. Previous build my ZJ was plenty happy and jumped to life as soon as the ignition was bumped, with Livewires and MSD products. Not wanting to spend hundreds of dollars on wires and an MSD ignition I kept searching. Read forum posts and found a lot of people happy with Mopar performance wires pretty favorable and an upgrade over stock at 8mm. Those are harder to find as moparperformance.com doesn't even list our rigs anymore. Further research and I read that those wires are made by Taylor. Which lead me to the 8.2 Thundervolt vehicle specific performance ignition wire set. Features only 40ohms of resistance, Ferrite spiral-wound coated core of copper/ nickel alloy, and heat resistant up to 600* sleeves.
Part number is 84249, found for 41 bucks on Amazon.
Pretty happy woth that score, as most other 8mm+ wires were closer to $100 or more. Next up is cap and rotor. These aren't usually expensive, but a ton of em are CHEAP. Main thing here is wanting brass terminals for best conductivity. I looked at waaaaaay to many cap and rotor combos, and was surprised to find how hard it was to find both in brass. Most of the caps that feature brass contacts come with rotors that I could clearly see polished silver looking contacts.
SUM-G5230 - Summit Racing® Distributor Cap and Rotor Kits
From summit. Price was decent, made in the US is a bonus, and delivery wasnt too far out.
All in all I got the whole tune up kit for right around the $75 Accel "truck tuneup kit" offered on Amazon and other places. I think this has superior wires, plugs, and the rotor I think is better too.
Hope this helps someone, or at the very least will be a reference point for myself down the line.
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The main thing I wanted to document is the wires, cap,and rotor I finally found. Previous build my ZJ was plenty happy and jumped to life as soon as the ignition was bumped, with Livewires and MSD products. Not wanting to spend hundreds of dollars on wires and an MSD ignition I kept searching. Read forum posts and found a lot of people happy with Mopar performance wires pretty favorable and an upgrade over stock at 8mm. Those are harder to find as moparperformance.com doesn't even list our rigs anymore. Further research and I read that those wires are made by Taylor. Which lead me to the 8.2 Thundervolt vehicle specific performance ignition wire set. Features only 40ohms of resistance, Ferrite spiral-wound coated core of copper/ nickel alloy, and heat resistant up to 600* sleeves.
Part number is 84249, found for 41 bucks on Amazon.
Pretty happy woth that score, as most other 8mm+ wires were closer to $100 or more. Next up is cap and rotor. These aren't usually expensive, but a ton of em are CHEAP. Main thing here is wanting brass terminals for best conductivity. I looked at waaaaaay to many cap and rotor combos, and was surprised to find how hard it was to find both in brass. Most of the caps that feature brass contacts come with rotors that I could clearly see polished silver looking contacts.
SUM-G5230 - Summit Racing® Distributor Cap and Rotor Kits
From summit. Price was decent, made in the US is a bonus, and delivery wasnt too far out.
All in all I got the whole tune up kit for right around the $75 Accel "truck tuneup kit" offered on Amazon and other places. I think this has superior wires, plugs, and the rotor I think is better too.
Hope this helps someone, or at the very least will be a reference point for myself down the line.
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