So I'm looking at doing shorty wires but it seems no one around here can get them.

Is there anybody other than Taylor Wires that makes them and if not would they still work properly if I just made my own kit?

 

What do you mean by make your own kit? I'm in the process of doing mine tonight along with plugs (forgot how much of a PITA the rear driver side was lol) with the taylor shorties.

 

Msd makes a kit that is basically cut the wire and install the connectors and boots. However I'm not sure they work for us tho.

Please post a couple pics whene you're done. I'm likely gonna order them from moes and just pay the extra shipping to get it to canada

 

I'll can buy them and ship them to you if you want.

 

Shorty's NFG on 2 plug per cylinder engines, throws timing of the plug firing off, dyno's show LOWER performance.

Thicker than stock = great. Shorter = FUBAR...

 

AND.....thicker generally only helps when you have added voltage going through them...Stock ignition...means stock voltage. i wouldn't spend $.01 unless there was something wrong with the stock wires.

 

I read that it was a couple hp which I'm likely not going to notice anyway. If I'm wrong tho I would love to be properly informed? I'm doing it mostly to clean up some under the hood, but I don't want to lose a ton of performance.

Truckin hopefully you can shed some light?

 

i don't think you will Lose any performance on a stock engine, but you certainly aren't going to again anything either.

 

I steered Bear toward a couple very in depth posts from a very tech guru site I'm on which dyno'd a RAM w/ Hemi, with stock, thicker and shorty wires. I'll have to see if Bear still has the link, but there was a surprising loss in performance with the shorty's...

 

The most i have heard of the shorties loosing for hp is about 2hp. Most of the guys i have seen that have some of the fastest dodge trucks are running the shorties too. with that along with the fact that the newer trucks (I think the 06' and up) have the shorties and not the birds nest of wires the older models do i dont see an issue. Also the shorties i have on are quite a bit thicker than stock too.