Size of your wires

[GenDBlade]

What size spark plug wires do u run? and what size do you recomend?

[GenDBlade]

anyone???

[CustomLowz]

I have 8mm Accel wires in the Black accord, and NGK stock replacement wires in the gray accord...

[GenDBlade]

does the size of the wire matter?

[Josh26]

does the size of the wire matter?

eh personally me i dont see a differnt i had stock ones then i upgraded to the bigger ngk's and couldnt tell nothing. thats just me tho

[oneoffaccord]

i rock MSD 8.5mm wires. its not the size that counts its the motion in the ocean

[v4lu3s]

you need at LEAST 10mm wires to see good power gains. in fact if you can find 12mm or 15mm those will be even better.



j/k

[sulimed]

the wires are thicker for heat resistance, and electromagnetic interference suppression

[C91BLX7]

If your on a pretty much stock engine wires won't do shit unless the one you have now are crap.

[prNonVtec4u]

you need at LEAST 10mm wires to see good power gains. in fact if you can find 12mm or 15mm those will be even better.



j/k

please don't spread misleading info... stick to OEM or preferrably NGK blues and you'll b good 2 go

please don't consider plug wires as a "performance" upgrade but more as maintenance

[GhostAccord]

Your stock ignition system will not perform any better with bigger wires.

15mm WTF are we talking here, a top fuel dragster or a I4 CB7 Accord? Sorry man but that's complete BS.

The OEM wires are more than enough to handle the stock coil output or any sport compact MSD or Accel coil for that matter. If you want better wires it's not the size that matters. It's the resistance per wire and the quality of the RFI/EFI insulator that you should be looking for. The Accel 8mm 300+ Thunder Sports boast 150 ohms per foot. I wasted my money on them and didn't see a lick of difference over the stock NGK's not even better gas mileage.

Using larger wires won't give you any added HP. Better gas mileage is really the only thing that your going to physically see or feel from using a bigger coil and or wires on your setup.

[lokuputha]

Unless you are running 5000hp, 16-sparkplug monster V8's....I don't think you have to be concerned with wire thicknesses.

As long as you stick with OEM spec, you should be good. But new wires sure look perti though.

[F22HB]

Going bigger is just for looks. They did some tests and found NGK blues or oem are the best choices. I'm runnin autolight on my accord and accel on my civic. Neither are over 8mm.

[mozzandherb]

Yup stick with OEM, it's your best bet

[evil_demon_01]

Going bigger is just for looks. They did some tests and found NGK blues or oem are the best choices. I'm runnin autolight on my accord and accel on my civic. Neither are over 8mm.

X2 I see people changing wires all the time, but never really seen the point.
Oem work just fine, and upgrades (8mm,10mm) IMO are just a waste of money. I havn't seen any gains, or smoother idles (On several hondas)
Unless of course the rest of the ignition has been upgraded