Griff ceramic leads
Discussion
Any one had any trouble with ceramic caps? bought a set of originals vauxhall style which lasted 5mins turned out to be chinese copys the seller kindly offered to take them back i didnt bother and bought from seller a final fix set of ceramic ones 6mths and 600 miles later ive got 2 cylinders down ....getting tedious now and expensive...any other options? not a lover of socks
Mr Jenks said:
It sounds like you got ceramic caps from the same seller as your original type plug caps? Do you not think that the ceramic caps may be cheap Chinese sh**e as well?
I bought a set of these they transformed the car. Worth every penny.
Actually no exactly the same as yours.I bought a set of these they transformed the car. Worth every penny.
The OP may not be a fan of socks, but they are indeed the answer.
The extenders are at best a necessary evil, ultimately they are (as the OP has discovered) a potential point of failure.
Not that it matters much it should also be pointed out that the extenders rated as the non-resister type actually exhibit a resistance of 300 Ohms, so about the same resistance as a 6' length of the extremely low resistance MSD Super Conductor HT lead.
Extender failure is indeed quite common, lets be 100% clear they are only there to ensure the ends of the HT leads don't get burnt, if TVR could have got away without fitting them I'm sure they would have (as demonstrated with the V8 Wedge models).
This engine was never designed to have extenders, they are only fitted to Chimaeras & Griffs because of the exhaust manifold design, here's Range Rover P38:
See, no extenders
Now that's understood lets look at how we can delete the pesky things:
1. Buy decent leads with plug ends that have good resistance to heat like these MSD Super Conductors
2. Buy a 6' roll of MSD Pro-Boot Guard
3. Cut the MSD Pro-Boot Guard roll into 10" lengths & fit over the plug ends, this image shows the Pro-Boot Guard part way on, when fully fitted it goes over & right up to the very end of the grey MSD plug end
4. Fit a DEI Titanium Protect-A-Boot over the whole lot with the steel ring inside the Protect-A-Boot at the plug end, only use DEI Titanium Protect-A-Boots, the cheaper woven fiberglass boots are not up to the job
5. Repeat steps 1-4 eight times
6. You can now crimp your coil/distributor ends, the MSD Super Conductor universal kit comes with two types of distributor ends and a basic but effective crimp die in the box. Details here:
http://www.circletrack.com/enginetech/ctrp_1106_do...
I've been running this setup for some two years now, thousands of miles later and my double protected system has proved itself to be 100% reliable
Dave.
The extenders are at best a necessary evil, ultimately they are (as the OP has discovered) a potential point of failure.
Not that it matters much it should also be pointed out that the extenders rated as the non-resister type actually exhibit a resistance of 300 Ohms, so about the same resistance as a 6' length of the extremely low resistance MSD Super Conductor HT lead.
Extender failure is indeed quite common, lets be 100% clear they are only there to ensure the ends of the HT leads don't get burnt, if TVR could have got away without fitting them I'm sure they would have (as demonstrated with the V8 Wedge models).
This engine was never designed to have extenders, they are only fitted to Chimaeras & Griffs because of the exhaust manifold design, here's Range Rover P38:
See, no extenders
Now that's understood lets look at how we can delete the pesky things:
1. Buy decent leads with plug ends that have good resistance to heat like these MSD Super Conductors
2. Buy a 6' roll of MSD Pro-Boot Guard
3. Cut the MSD Pro-Boot Guard roll into 10" lengths & fit over the plug ends, this image shows the Pro-Boot Guard part way on, when fully fitted it goes over & right up to the very end of the grey MSD plug end
4. Fit a DEI Titanium Protect-A-Boot over the whole lot with the steel ring inside the Protect-A-Boot at the plug end, only use DEI Titanium Protect-A-Boots, the cheaper woven fiberglass boots are not up to the job
5. Repeat steps 1-4 eight times
6. You can now crimp your coil/distributor ends, the MSD Super Conductor universal kit comes with two types of distributor ends and a basic but effective crimp die in the box. Details here:
http://www.circletrack.com/enginetech/ctrp_1106_do...
I've been running this setup for some two years now, thousands of miles later and my double protected system has proved itself to be 100% reliable
Dave.
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