rastaman
06-03-2003, 12:37 AM
Ok, so I've been posting stuff here about how my car runs like crap and i just about gave up. I couldn't figure out whether it was the ignition system, the IMRC, or evil gnomes that were just screwing with me. Earlier in the year, i had the dealership fix a problem i had with my car because it was the dead of winter, and homey don't work in the cold. Because of previous problems, I actually had a mix of my old stock spark plug wires and newer Ford Motorsports spark plug wires on the car. Since the car has been exhibiting similar symptoms recently, and the dealership is supposed to warranty their work for a year, I figured I was gonna take it back there this week and let them deal with the headache. But I figured before they jumped up my ass, I'd get brand new wires, just so they couldn't throw that in my face. Before I swapped the new ones in, I checked the resistance of all the wires (i figured the new ones i just bought should serve as a baseline), and I got some REALLY strange results:
New Stock Motorcraft Wires:
Wire1 = 8.0k
Wire2 = 6.5k
Wire3 = 8.0k
Wire4 = 14.6k
Wire5 = 19.9k
Wire6 = 19.9k
FMS Wires (the ones i just pulled out):
Wire1 = 1.5k
Wire2 = 1.25k (this wire was not in the car, i used Wire3 from my original stock set)
Wire3 = 1.5k
Wire4 = 3.3k
Wire5 = 3.3k
Wire6 = 3.5k
Orignal Stock Motorcraft Wires:
Wire1 = 5.4k
Wire2 = 5.3k
Wire3 = 6.3k (this wire was in the car and connected to cylinder 2)
Wire4 = 11.6k
Wire5 = 15.0k
Wire6 = 14.5k
Before I did the swap, I wasn't expecting it to change in the performance of the car, like i said, i just wanted my wires to be uniform before i took it back to the stealership. But lo and behold, the car runs like a champ now. WTF? Can anyone explain this? How can there be such a big discrepancy between the resistances of the wires? I know that each wire should be different because the resistance is dependant on the length of the wire, but I can't understand the difference between the resistances of CORRESPONDING wires. I can understand the drop from the brand new stock wires and the original stock wires cuz the originals were old. But the FMS wires were on my car for as long as the original stock ones, and their resistances are SO low. what the dealio?
does this mean that i'm mentally defective, and this is perfectly normal? are the FMS wires kaka? somebody make sense of this for me :confused:
New Stock Motorcraft Wires:
Wire1 = 8.0k
Wire2 = 6.5k
Wire3 = 8.0k
Wire4 = 14.6k
Wire5 = 19.9k
Wire6 = 19.9k
FMS Wires (the ones i just pulled out):
Wire1 = 1.5k
Wire2 = 1.25k (this wire was not in the car, i used Wire3 from my original stock set)
Wire3 = 1.5k
Wire4 = 3.3k
Wire5 = 3.3k
Wire6 = 3.5k
Orignal Stock Motorcraft Wires:
Wire1 = 5.4k
Wire2 = 5.3k
Wire3 = 6.3k (this wire was in the car and connected to cylinder 2)
Wire4 = 11.6k
Wire5 = 15.0k
Wire6 = 14.5k
Before I did the swap, I wasn't expecting it to change in the performance of the car, like i said, i just wanted my wires to be uniform before i took it back to the stealership. But lo and behold, the car runs like a champ now. WTF? Can anyone explain this? How can there be such a big discrepancy between the resistances of the wires? I know that each wire should be different because the resistance is dependant on the length of the wire, but I can't understand the difference between the resistances of CORRESPONDING wires. I can understand the drop from the brand new stock wires and the original stock wires cuz the originals were old. But the FMS wires were on my car for as long as the original stock ones, and their resistances are SO low. what the dealio?
does this mean that i'm mentally defective, and this is perfectly normal? are the FMS wires kaka? somebody make sense of this for me :confused: