Do the male caps tend to be more reliable?
Here's the deal. Since I put together my carb'd 460 combo, I've had a random missfire. I've been through the valve adjustments a couple of times and the timing and the carb tuning. None of that has ever effected the missfire.
For example, driving down the freeway, under cruise circumstances at 60 MPH, every 5-10 seconds, it will miss once.
My combination is as follows: Female cap on a Scott R. recurved Duraspark. I've got an MSD 6AL ignition box, Accel 8.8MM wires to Autolite 45 conventional spark plugs, gapped at .035.
The engine is stock rotating assembly, Scott R. spec'd ported iron C8 heads, approximately 10:1 compression, approximately 400 flywheel horsepower.
I'm always a little unnerved by the fact that the wires don't positively lock on the cap. It seems like the boots are tight and tend to force the wire back out of the cap. Maybe none of that has any bearing on the issue?
Opinions?
Thank you!!
--Ed
Here's the deal. Since I put together my carb'd 460 combo, I've had a random missfire. I've been through the valve adjustments a couple of times and the timing and the carb tuning. None of that has ever effected the missfire.
For example, driving down the freeway, under cruise circumstances at 60 MPH, every 5-10 seconds, it will miss once.
My combination is as follows: Female cap on a Scott R. recurved Duraspark. I've got an MSD 6AL ignition box, Accel 8.8MM wires to Autolite 45 conventional spark plugs, gapped at .035.
The engine is stock rotating assembly, Scott R. spec'd ported iron C8 heads, approximately 10:1 compression, approximately 400 flywheel horsepower.
I'm always a little unnerved by the fact that the wires don't positively lock on the cap. It seems like the boots are tight and tend to force the wire back out of the cap. Maybe none of that has any bearing on the issue?
Opinions?
Thank you!!
--Ed