Magencor or Nology

[Prophet]

Got a question for you hard core tuners out there. Why does everyone perfer Magnecor and not Nology wires. Am I missing something here?


Other than price...

[Fishboy55]

Two reasons for me Jason. First, and most important, the Magnecor's have the reputation and experience behind them. All the true racers I've known and met at the track use and recommend the Magnecor's. They're proven to do exactly what they claim to do without a lot of hype about capacitance and stronger spark. Magnecor's site actually compares the output vs Nology. Second, they came in red which matches the color scheme of my motor.

[Prophet]

Really I must have missed that when Magnecor compared themselves to Nology on there site. I know there is about a $150.00 difference. :shock:

[Fishboy55]

Here's the link I was referring to Jason. They refer specifically to Nology's claims of stronger spark.

http://www.magnecor.com/magnecor1/truth.htm

Chip

[Prophet]

Here's the link I was referring to Jason. They refer specifically to Nology's claims of stronger spark.

http://www.magnecor.com/magnecor1/truth.htm

Chip

Thanks Chip now I know why. :shock:

Like many in the past, Nology cleverly demonstrates a brighter free-air spark containing useless flash-over created by the crude "capacitor" (effect) of this style of wire. In reality, the bright spark has no more useful energy to fire a variable compressed air/fuel mixture than the clean spark you would see in a similar demonstration using any good carbon conductor wire. What is happening in such a demonstration is the coil output is being unnecessarily boosted to additionally supply spark energy that is induced (and wasted) into the grounded braided metal sleeve around the ignition wire's jacket. To test the validity of this statement, ask the demonstrator to disconnect the ground strap and observe just how much energy is sparking to ground.

Claims by Nology of their "HotWires" creating sparks that are "300 times more powerful," reaching temperatures of "100,000 to 150,000 degrees F" (more than enough to melt spark plug electrodes), spark durations of "4 billionths of a second" (spark duration is controlled by the ignition system itself) and currents of "1,000 amperes" magically evolving in "capacitors" allegedly "built-in" to the ignition wires are as ridiculous as the data and the depiction of sparks in photographs used in advertising material and the price asked for these wires! Most stock ignition primaries are regulated to 6 amperes and the most powerful race ignition to no more than 40 amperes at 12,000 RPM.

What other wires are comparable to Magnecor?

[Fishboy55]

None that I know of. That's why I bit the bullet and bought them. They were actually the first mod I put on my car after I owned it six months. They now have 52,000 miles on them and not one bit of degredation. Just proves that you sometimes have to pay more to get more.

[pinoyesv6]

here's another article you might want to read.

http://iwcweb.com/eclipse/html/warning.html

this one hits a lil bit closer to home since the owner has a 4g63t, which is similar to the 4g64 in your galant

[Fishboy55]

here's another article you might want to read.

http://iwcweb.com/eclipse/html/warning.html

this one hits a lil bit closer to home since the owner has a 4g63t, which is similar to the 4g64 in your galant

Basically it says if the dumbass had done some research instead of listening to his "fellow performance enthusiasts" (who obviously didn't do any research and knew about as much as he did) he would have found the Magnecor page. Duh!!

I am so tired of people not taking responsibility for their own stupidity and then expecting someone else to do something about it. Like the idiot who left his bottle heater on overnight and blew up his garage and then tried to blame the manufacturer of the heater that Nick told us about a few months back.

[pinoyesv6]

Basically it says if the dumbass had done some research instead of listening to his "fellow performance enthusiasts" (who obviously didn't do any research and knew about as much as he did) he would have found the Magnecor page. Duh!!

thats tru. but then only god knows what was on magnecor's page back in 1997 when he purchased the wires

hell, back in 1997, not as many people had access to the internet as we do now. so word of mouth was probably one of the better ways of learning about information like this.

[HeadAche]

I agreew ith you both, but you gotta do the research, but sometimes word of mouth is the way we buy parts..

[EsRacer]

Between the two, they actually function almost on the same level. Yes there is the price difference which begs the question of why the price gap. By my experience, they're the same. The Nology has their own claims, but when I actually put them on my 8G I4 after having the Magnecores on a while. I experienced no difference. No added horsepower, no better or worse gas milage. I just swapped those back out and put my Magnecores back on and got my money back for the Nolgy's. IMO their the same reagardless of the claims Nology makes.

[VegasMatt]

I have Nology, and have had no problems with it.