plastic ignition wire mounting and routing clips

[ed hess]

going to put taylor 8mm wires on today.

removed the 1st plastic clip holding wire no 1 closets to plug. It says 7mm on the push in u section. who sells these clips so that you can maintain the stock mounting and routing of your ignition wires.

are these even available for 8mm taylors?

are these something that comes only with delco oem wire sets?

I realize i can just get whatever napa might have hanging around, but the oem clips mounting eliminates burned wires. soem engineer took the time to plan the best place to route the wires so why not follow it?

i havent checked the help catalog yet.

ed

 

[canadian]

years ago on the syty mailing list, someone went through the trouble of taking all the spark plug wire clips off their truck and "routed" them to a larger diameter with a drill so they could reuse them on larger plug wires (might have been the accel 9000 set).

something to think about if nobody offers a similar clip in a bigger size.

 

[ed hess]

dont think thats gonna work, the pass side clips are gone... the drivers side are all there but they seem brittle.... tried pusing one of the u clips for the 7mm onto the 8mm and nope the u cracked.
I have soem napa clips on the pass side but its just as CLEAN a look if i could get soemthing like the oem clips in an 8 mm size.

Everyone swears about using taylor wires here so what are they using for mounting?

ed

 

[CLONE]

I use zip ties.

 

[AUSyTyIN]

I use zip ties.

Maybe ugly, but it work fine and its cheap.

 

[ed hess]

i just put the monkey on my local napa guy, he said he found me something. i will post whatever he sends me if it gives a clean look.

If it dont look right im not gonna do it. My one syclone buddy will break my stones if it aint right and im not gonna give em a chance.
ed

 

[Daron]

Zip ties work great, black ones can look nice...

Back in the day I used a dremel to open up the stock clips to accept 8mm wires.

 

[jwaller]

most dealers stock those clips...I have dozens of them laying around...you'll need singles, doubles, and a triple clamp...

 

[ed hess]

yep
thats exactly what my local napa dealer delivered, not the same as oem for the syclone, but they still looked better than wire ties. And they clip right onto the metal mounting tabs which was what i wanted.

ed