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Just re-installed my 100k stock wires because after only 7k of use the FRPPs developed a missfire. Can i get my money back to go buy a QUALITY product?

Havent had any problems with mine yet, and I've been running them for many many miles. Hit or miss I geuss.

Originally posted by RawBurt:
Hit or miss I geuss.

The same with Bosch +4s or NGK Iridiums. I had problems with Bosch wires, too.

No issues with the ones I have used.

Originally posted by todras:
No issues with the ones I have used.

Originally posted by RTStabler51:

Originally posted by todras:
No issues with the ones I have used.

+1

+2

Although, I thought I was having issues, so I swapped them out for some Autolite wires. Come to find out, it wasn't the wires. Oh well, I've got a perfectly good set of FRP wires in my garage with only 35k miles on them.

Mark

Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Although, I thought I was having issues, so I swapped them out for some Autolite wires. Come to find out, it wasn't the wires. Oh well, I've got a perfectly good set of FRP wires in my garage with only 35k miles on them.

Mark

I'll give ya 5 bucks!

8000Km on the FRPP and brand new ford plug and no problem

I went through 2 sets of miss wires.

Back to OEM and no problems.

I had a set last about a week before they went out. Got Magnecor's, love them, i got what i paid for.

mine the same problem misfire and only have 8000miles i have buy it a black tape that use for stereos and wraped all the wires and stop misfire

i know is a temporal solution (i have 2 months with this solution)

so far I'm loving my Magnacores

i've had mine for about 45k and no misfire as far as i can tell. does the engine just turn over and not start up right away when it misfires?

A blinking CEL usually follows a misfire.

Originally posted by Pole120:
Just re-installed my 100k stock wires because after only 7k of use the FRPPs developed a missfire. Can i get my money back to go buy a QUALITY product?

Possibly you can change out the coil. The coil-wires-plugs on our cars' ignition systems all really go together to create a certain impedance in the ignition system (duh right?) Anyway, the wires may have a different resistance and that combined with your coils (no two coils are exactly alike) and your plugs may be causing a bunch of noise on the coil driver circuits in the PCM. This will cause misfires on otherwise good components. I suggest you try a couple of differen't cheap plugs like non-platinums with those wires and see what happens.
Also, just change the plug gap on the plugs you have. Tighten it up by 5-10 thousands, see what happens and then compare by widening the gap by the same amount....all on the same plugs.
This way you can see what the effect is with just different plug gap, then try a differen't plug if you haven't gotten the problem to go away.

I've had two different coils on the car(nice having extra parts around sometimes), and the problem persisted. I have not however done enything with different plugs. I've been looking for an excuse to justify Magnacores and it's been given to me. The misfire is gone now that i've re-installed teh stock wires.

~Josh

Ford Racing wires suck!!

Josh, try using a different plug, I know I had missfire for the longest time due to Autolite DP plugs with Magnecor 8.5mm..I took Pete (mapoftazi) advice and bought cheap Champion .99 cent plugs and the car runs beautifully

Originally posted by RawBurt...:
A blinking CEL usually follows a misfire.

Not always. Josh's misfire was similar to what I experienced in my Sport. The car idled and accelerated just fine in regular traffic, but get it up to freeway speeds (60-70) and floor it in top gear; the engine bogs and bucks. I'm not even sure you could call it a misfire as much as it was just an "ignition problem." The few times I have experienced a blinking CEL with other people's cars (never my own) was when the misfire was so bad that the car could barely hold idle.

Originally posted by Pole120:
I've had two different coils on the car(nice having extra parts around sometimes)

<*COUGH*>you're welcome<*COUGH*>

I keed!

Originally posted by hetfeild:

Originally posted by RawBurt...:
A blinking CEL usually follows a misfire from my personal experience.

Not always. Josh's misfire was similar to what I experienced in my Sport. The car idled and accelerated just fine in regular traffic, but get it up to freeway speeds (60-70) and floor it in top gear; the engine bogs and bucks. I'm not even sure you could call it a misfire as much as it was just an "ignition problem." The few times I have experienced a blinking CEL with other people's cars (never my own) was when the misfire was so bad that the car could barely hold idle.

Fixed

So now some are having good results from plugs other than autolites? I've wondered, as I have a very slight persistent miss that even the magnacores did not cure. I'm also wondering if the cap height on the wires is too long as the car misfires worse when it's wet out.

Jim T