Spark Plug Wires for 428 PI

[laforum]

What are the correct spark plug wires for a Cobra with a 428 PI engine?  Have they been reproduced?

[TLea]

GT 500 or Cobra? Year?

[laforum]

1966 Cobra

[TLea]

I am not 100% sure on this but I would think they would be the fomoco wires  the same as the 7 L Galaxie used.  They are reproduced

[Special Ed]

Werent the plug wires longer when the taller pentroof valve covers were used on cobras?

[shelbydoug]

Same wires as on a '67 GT500. Same engine as CSX3200's.

[430dragpack]

Same wires as on a '67 GT500. Same engine as CSX3200's.

Did all the 67 GT 500 wire sets have orange boots and '66 and earlier engines use black boots?  Length might be the same since the Cobra and GT 500 had tall covers like Ed said.  Probably "SX" marked steel core performance wire, for the Cobra.

[Bob Gaines]

Same wires as on a '67 GT500. Same engine as CSX3200's.

Did all the 67 GT 500 wire sets have orange boots and '66 and earlier engines use black boots?  Length might be the same since the Cobra and GT 500 had tall covers like Ed said.  Probably "SX" marked steel core performance wire.

I have seen some 67's with mixed black and orange. 67 GT500 used radio resistance .

[430dragpack]

Same wires as on a '67 GT500. Same engine as CSX3200's.

Did all the 67 GT 500 wire sets have orange boots and '66 and earlier engines use black boots?  Length might be the same since the Cobra and GT 500 had tall covers like Ed said.  Probably "SX" marked steel core performance wire.

I have seen some 67's with mixed black and orange. 67 GT500 used radio resistance .

Bob, when you say "mixed" do you mean one engine could've had some orange and black boots or some engines had all black and the next engine had all orange, until a supply was used up. Did the GT500 wires also have Autolite and date code along with the Radio Resistance?

[Bob Gaines]

Same wires as on a '67 GT500. Same engine as CSX3200's.

Did all the 67 GT 500 wire sets have orange boots and '66 and earlier engines use black boots?  Length might be the same since the Cobra and GT 500 had tall covers like Ed said.  Probably "SX" marked steel core performance wire.

I have seen some 67's with mixed black and orange. 67 GT500 used radio resistance .

Bob, when you say "mixed" do you mean one engine could've had some orange and black boots or some engines had all black and the next engine had all orange, until a supply was used up. Did the GT500 wires also have Autolite and date code along with the Radio Resistance?

Early could have all black and later could have all orange . I don't know if the mixed was the change over (probably) or not . The change over to the dated wires happened early in 67 production .

[430dragpack]

Did Ford service, Autolite replacement wire sets, let's say from 1967-1970, have date codes on them like assembly line wires? 

[Bob Gaines]

Did Ford service, Autolite replacement wire sets, let's say from 1967-1970, have date codes on them like assembly line wires?

Yes . Some of the service wires that I have seen had different color letters too.

[TLea]

Werent the plug wires longer when the taller pentroof valve covers were used on cobras?

My 65 R code has pentroof covers and have std FoMoCo SX wires

[shelbydoug]

The reproduction wires that I have for my '67 GT500 are from SEMO Mustang. They clear over the the tops of the COBRA Lemans cast covers with no issues.

I believe that it is Marti that has them made?

They come with orange plug boots. They are radio suppression.

The chrome pent roof covers are less bulky so they are plenty long enough for that application.

[TLea]

67 would be Autolite correct? I'm thinking 66 is Fomoco