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my distributor cap is a puddy color. I looked and originally it came with a cap that went over the wires, but the guy that we bought the truck from must have taken it off. do you know if I can change that cap? it would look ok with the paint, but I don't think it'll look good with the wires. I like the wire routing you did. I don't know about black, I'll have to look at the engine and think about how it'll play off the other stuff. what about red? blue would probably look pretty good too.

do you have protectors over the boots by the headers?

Red

Mine's not a Ford, but I used Taylor "409" wires and Taylor wire seperators

I generally use the black Taylor Spiro-Pro but this time I did want some contrast with all the aluminum The separators/loom is Made For You

Red, both of our cars have Mallory distributors that come with a red cap. We masked off about 1/8 of an inch around the 8 spark plug wire sockets and one coil wire socket, and spray painted them black with a bug bomb. Paint won't cause any shorts, especially if you keep it back a little from the contact. The boot hides the portion we masked off. Point is, you can paint your cap any color you want.

Don

Originally Posted by Dago Red

do you have protectors over the boots by the headers?
Red

You shouldn't need anything with Taylor's. IMHO some of the best wires for the money with very low impedance per foot at 500 ohms or less.

ok guys, I ended up with the pro reisistor set, was going off the web and didn't realize I wasn't ordering the spiro pro. should I send these back and get the others, its just a 12 buck difference it looks like, and the hassle of shipping. will I see a difference? engine is about 425hp (with cam specs in an online calculator, not counting any port and polish work on the heads). going to have a radio/mp3 player inside, that's about it.

thanks a ot for the help. I got the black ones by the way.

Originally Posted by Dago Red

ok guys, I ended up with the pro reisistor set, was going off the web and didn't realize I wasn't ordering the spiro pro. should I send these back and get the others, its just a 12 buck difference it looks like, and the hassle of shipping. will I see a difference? engine is about 425hp (with cam specs in an online calculator, not counting any port and polish work on the heads). going to have a radio/mp3 player inside, that's about it.

thanks a ot for the help. I got the black ones by the way.

If you have an MSD ignition, they recommend the spiro pro - theirs of course but from what I can see, the Taylors are fine - at least they had best be fine !!!!

I agree, you should be fine.

Don