Has anyone here who has replaced the plug wires with shorties had any issues. Im thinking about doing it since it seems to be a much cleaner way of running plug wires.

 

I guess the hemis have plug wires? Mine just has the coil packs right on the cylinder.

 

I'm interested in seeing if there is a benefit to using shorty wires.

There is a wire that runs to the coil pack, and then an actual plug wire that runs to the exhaust side.... don't qoute me on it being the exhaust side, I could be wrong there.

 

02-05 HEMIs have plug wires. 06+ use dual firing coil packs although you can retrofit them on the 02-05 like I did mine. A lot of guys use shorties though and the only issue i have heard from using them is sometimes in the winter they dont work good. But that could be just some guys who have that issue and not everyone

 

Was a write up on another forum that's kind of a more tech geek forum. Membership is mostly Mopar tech shop guys and guys who work in the industry.

According to the thread, dynos were run with stock wires, stock length but thicker wires and shorty thick wires. Performance was WORSE with the shorties! The theory was that the wire length in the '02-'05s was critical in the proper timing of the firing of the secondary plug and the shorty wires threw the timing off by fractions of a second.

Also stated was that the performance loss was minimal (like 2 or 3 HP if I remember correctly) so you'd need a dyno to see it.

Best gains were the standard length, but thicker wires (but again, something small that only a dyno would see)...

 

Don't really care to much about gains. Mainly Im wanting to know if anyone has had any major loss, or really any issues from the firing same 2 plugs as opposed to the way it is now.

 

They are used to burn ALL the file in the cylinder as opposed to burning the remaining on the exhuast stroke (wasted spark). So in a sense there should be better efficiency and more power.