Plug wires

Have my "old school" wires since 1982 and no problems so far ! Just keep the car in a dry place ....

Guido

 

I tried using a length from the local shop on my 87 mondial to make up a set- it started up with a series of pops and back fires- not my finest moment.. Try it as it might scare the neibours

 

My XDI ignition came with very nice red 7mm wires. What I did was cut the old wires and remove them from the boot. Then feed the new wire through the boot with some left out. eliminate extenders by putting the wire on then sliding the boot down to valve cover. Worked pretty nice.

 

Here is your wire solution which includes eliminating the troublesome extenders. You will be amazed and very inexpensive

 

Depends what you mean by "old school". Using a solid conductor, zero ohm, zero impedance wire risks damaging the output transistors in the DigiPlex ECUs switching the coil primaries. Using high resistance carbon filament conductor wires would probably be OK, but reduces the spark energy delivered and seems unnecessary as many "spiral wound" aftermarket wires similar to the stock F wires are available. You need some impedance in the "wire+extender+spark plug" path to protect those transistors IMO.

 

You can get a full set of 8 leads for between £178 and £250 from Superperformance, so about 20/30£ each. Pretty good if they last 10 years

 

There's a sticky on rebuilding plug wires on the 308 forum:

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ignition-lead-rebuild.428411/

 

way to go, Joe.