NGK Plug Wires - Shorter K8 wires or long KL wires?

Spinkx79 · Post by **Spinkx79** » May 2nd, 2006, 1:16 pm

I am in need of some new plug wires, I am going to buy NGK's the question is:

I have a K8 in now, with a KL to go in. IIRC the lengths of the KL wires are longer because they need to stretch farther in the bigger Probe and MX-6 engine bays. Do you guys with ZE or DE's in MX-3's buy the K8 wires or the KL wires?

Thanks

JWMX3 · Post by **JWMX3** » May 2nd, 2006, 1:33 pm

I have the KL wires on my DE..... you can run them very neat and out of the way, while the k8 wires have to go straight over the IM and looks messy ,imo

if there is any performance difference in the length of the wire,(i think there was a thread on this a while back) it would never be even close to noticable, so go with the clean look, nice long kl wires

relisys_3200 · Post by **relisys_3200** » May 2nd, 2006, 1:37 pm

Spinkx79 wrote:I am in need of some new plug wires, I am going to buy NGK's the question is:

I have a K8 in now, with a KL to go in. IIRC the lengths of the KL wires are longer because they need to stretch farther in the bigger Probe and MX-6 engine bays. Do you guys with ZE or DE's in MX-3's buy the K8 wires or the KL wires?

Thanks

k8 wires will work just as good, except they look like poop...they have to go all the way acoss the top of the intake manifold. If buying new ones anyways, just get the KL ones

relisys_3200 · Post by **relisys_3200** » May 2nd, 2006, 1:38 pm

baahh beat me to it

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » May 2nd, 2006, 2:32 pm

I agree. KLDE wires look best. You can get them to look good on any K-series engine. But the K8 wires look like crap unless you're running the K8 intake manifold with the factory wire retainer clips still on it. Not to mention 99% of the time KL wires are cheaper.

Macen · Post by **Macen** » May 2nd, 2006, 5:07 pm

Here's my "crappy looking K8 wires"

Unfortunately I didn't think about that the wires are different on the KL-DE. But they work very well, so no need to change them.

Jay72 · Post by **Jay72** » May 3rd, 2006, 1:59 am

lakersfan1 wrote:I agree. KLDE wires look best. You can get them to look good on any K-series engine. But the K8 wires look like crap unless you're running the K8 intake manifold with the factory wire retainer clips still on it. Not to mention 99% of the time KL wires are cheaper.

So, when shopping around, I just have to ask for Probe GT or MX6 wires to fit around my KLZE?

Spinkx79 · Post by **Spinkx79** » May 3rd, 2006, 10:05 am

I called 2 local Mazda's and 2 Ford's yesterday for pricing on 96 2.5l wires.

Mazda - $177CAD - NGK
Ford - $269CAD - Motocraft (never heard of them b4, Ford brand)

or online:

Probeaddiction.com - $97.99USD - NGK
PRDonline.com - $91.95USD - PRD brand??
Ebay - $49.00USD - ProSpark
Summitracing.com - $99.88USD - MSD
Summitracing.com - $88.39USD - Accel thundersport
Summitracing.com - $98.69USD - Taylor Spiro-Pro
Summitracing.com - $216.95USD - Nology Hotwires.

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » May 3rd, 2006, 10:35 am

http://www.stopshopanddrive.com/epcvsoa ... ddrive.com

$55 for generic, $75 for Bosch, and $78 for NGK. I believe you have to call that place for delivery in Canada before placing order.

Jay72 · Post by **Jay72** » May 4th, 2006, 2:12 am

lakersfan1 wrote:http://www.stopshopanddrive.com/epcvsoa ... ddrive.com

$55 for generic, $75 for Bosch, and $78 for NGK. I believe you have to call that place for delivery in Canada before placing order.

Great prices but, they "no longer ship to Canada". What's up with that? We're almost on the other side of the lake!

precidian · Post by **precidian** » May 4th, 2006, 10:28 pm

the proper wire should look something like my setup..

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NGK Plug Wires - Shorter K8 wires or long KL wires?

NGK Plug Wires - Shorter K8 wires or long KL wires?

Re: NGK Plug Wires - Shorter K8 wires or long KL wires?

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