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Who makes good wires

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I need to replace the wires on the van, and not wanting to get sucked into getting something that sounds good, cost much, but really does not deliver, I thought I would ask, who makes good wires?

I would pretty much count out Champion as my experience with anything Champion has not been good.

What about Bosch?

Any others?
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I've gotten good service out of Bosch 8mm wires. I've been running AC/Delco 8mm wires for a while now w/ no issues. I tend to get longer service out of them If I can keep them from coming in contact with anything metal, particularly hot metal. An extra zip tie here and there helps.
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i've had decent luck with napa belden wires. they're spendy for the newer vortec engines from what i can remember.
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NGK's on my van now no complaints and i think the 95 has Delphi still going we did have a problem with the bluestreak/standards on the 95 and had to switch them to what it has now
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While they are crazy-expensive, I don't think you can go wrong with the factory wires.
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robertg wrote:i've had decent luck with napa belden wires. they're spendy for the newer vortec engines from what i can remember.
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that's true too i guess but are they really that expensive? i figured they couldn't be much more then NGK or bosch right....?
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wish my valve covers looked like that i think mine are made of black plastic lol
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