They DO radiate far more garbage . The reason on hemi you had quiet is they are covered with metal like a corvette with very little exposed . And effectiveness of hood Radio wires got a bad rep as early ones had fiberglas strands with carbon thread or woven wrap . If someone pulled the wire off a plug without the tool they said you had to have ( kind of a Y shaped thing with two tabs at tips that just cleared plug but pulled up on insulator) , you DID break the filament causing poor idle skip etc . So much for " original wires" . Add to that heat often welded insulator boot to plug ( silicone grease helps that) You can test radio wires,on high ohms scale , less than 40000 ohms they are good . They vary all over the place .But never more than 40000 I had ideas about "not losing power "in the resistor when young That is all wrong . 40 k ohms is nothing to 50 kv . Interference or not depends on hood grounding efc etc . Use of resistor plugs and radio wires is common now ... dont know Todays radios on AM are a joke compared to the best tube or hybrid radios concurrent with our cars . I used to listen to WPTR troy ny in boston every night in my 60 dodge , still remember 14xx ! Great station ... Try that on AM today .. I too made packard "440" wires, still have 100' roll -- used to look for early hemi wires with ceramic insulators in junkyard to use . Today , Taylor wires and others make spiral core wires that use "L" ( millihenry ) of a radio choke coil wound around center made of Kevlar and moderate R to suppress noise . Good stuff , although I have had to use 8 mm wire , ( recent 270 hemi) can be problem maybe not . You DO need the Taylor tool, save hours of frustration and still end up with end you can pull off Fiberglass sleeves are good on some ram / B block plugs that are tight to manifold , as well as very careful shaping . Black wires allow black tie wraps to prevent sliding in stand holes too Still learning ... One last thing ,I have several times going back to 1968 I encountered intermittent skip could not find it ( note the "several times " part, throwing parts at it ) on B blocks . Long sad tale cut short fir here (ling on the first time , 68 charger 440 ) in the wire into coil tower (!) an arc can go right under that insulator all the way to one of the coil nuts (!!!!) Cannot see it in day . Saw it at night ( yow! could not believe it ) . While car was skipping.!!! ? wide plug gap , broken wire , whatever? . Old sets had a taller insulator there than distributor , new ones often not , Volts ARE higher there due to rotor gap in series with plug . Took wire out clean that tower spotless ( often has oily dirt on it) put silicone grease turn wire end cap to spread = no more of that . Heads up ! On plug sets , and stock wires too , hard to beat NGK . Japanese engineering Your mileage will not vary ! laugh On Aug 17, 2026, at 10:03 AM, John Nowosacki <jsnowosacki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: -- For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/search.htm#querylang --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chrysler 300 Club International" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to chrysler-300-club-international+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chrysler-300-club-international/9B797DD0-B9F1-4C8F-B2C8-C40C20D4B071%40gradyresearch.com. |
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