To answer the original question on plug wires; you will not see a performance difference between a 40 ohm wire and a 1000 ohm wire.

A hot coil delivers less than 0.5 amps of current. At 0.5 amps a 1000 ohm wire will drop 500 volts. A weak coil will develop 20,000 volts so, worse case you will lose 500 of 20,000 or 2.5%. If you can tell the difference there is something else very wrong.

Although it is not an absolute, higher resistance wires suppress ignition noise better.

Keep in mind that our stock coils are normally 40k-ish volts so that % drop is way less.

velvetdreams21
Not really on a Bonneville but I put an Accel tune up kit, from Summit, in my GMC Sonoma almost 60K miles ago. I replaced the distributor cap, rotor, and spark plugs about 30K miles ago. The Accel wires have performed without any problems all this time.

I would say the quality of the Accel plug wires is decent.

You have a low-voltage distributor system that doesn't relate in any way to a DIS system like the bonneville runs, with much higher spark voltage.

I just replaced my accel copper core wires with MSD Helicore wires. oNly the v8 set was available. but my acceleration is better although It may be missing a bit. I talked to a guy at MSD and he suggested a specific set/ coil packs, ign module and and coil wire interfaces For a total of about $850. I guess its a way off For my L27.

That MSD 'set' won't gain you much of anything. Use the 8224 MSD coil and any good-quality plug wire set.

This is another one of those situations where it'* best to ask us (who work with these cars every day) instead of a vendor out to make a buck. Find out what works and what doesn't.

msd all the way.............

Belden Premium from NAPA all the way. Your post doesn't leave much detail for us. And MSD has no advantage over any other premium or good-quality set.

My post was toward the TOPIC.... accel vs. msd,,, not BELDON...............MSD ALL THE WAY..........READ THE TOPIC..............................