MSD Heli Core Wires "Install Instructions"

[shanghai_todd]

After reading many post on spark plug wires to determine which brand I wanted to use for my turbo coversion I decided to be a contributer and went foward with making my own this past weekend. I have always been favorable towards MSD and after looking into the prices for Beru and Magnecore the use of MSD Heli core wire would save some serious $$$.

I started Saturday with a trip to the local V8 performance shop where I was able to purchase the MSD heli core universal 8CLY spark wire kit for $64.00 much cheaper then I was thinking, I also decided to throw in a couple extra $$ and purchase some black wire separators to help route my new plug wires that I wold be making.

The kit come complete with dual and standard crimp terminals but when dealing with the 911 distributer you will need to go with the standard terminal.

(1) first step is to strip the wire, to do this you must insert the SP wire into the stripping slot of the stripper/crimper device that comes with the kit.



(2) After stripping the sleeve, fold the conductor back along the wire and postion the wire into the terminal, you can bend the tabs slightly to help hold the wire and terminal in place.



(3) Slide the terminal and wire into the stripper/crimper device, the W shaped groove should be on the sides of the tab. Make sure wire is completly pressed into the terminal and the conductor is still bent under the plug wire. This is were a Vise is highly recommended.



(4) Apply pressure with the Vise.



(5) After removing from the Vise I inspected the position of the conductor and gently tugged on the wires to ensure a good connection. You can pretty much tell you got a good crimp just by looking at the wire, so do not tug to hard.



(6) Now that the hard part is done all you need to do is bend the terminals 90 degrees and install the boots, I added a little WD40 to help slide them on, I did run out of WD40 half way but managed with some KY jelly I had laying around