Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:44:06 +0100 From: "DervMan" <thedervmannospaml.com> Subject: Re: Dead Cheap Performance Enhancement
"DervMan" <thedervmannospaml.com> wrote in message news:44f05d68$0$1386$db0fefd9nospam.zen.co.uk... > "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message > news:C11601C5.4FBC%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk... >> in article 44efe3b9$0$1387$da0feed9nospam.zen.co.uk, DervMan at >> thedervmannospaml.com wrote on 26/8/06 07:00: >> >>> "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:C1152B9C.3FD%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk... >> >>>> I happened across a new set of Bougicord leads for just over 20 quid >>>> (available from <http://www.partsforsaabs.com/> if anyone else is >>>> interested), which is a very good price indeed. I popped the leads on >>>> this >>>> evening and we went for a drive ... WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE! >>> >>> Surely, the old leads were shot? Funky leads merely retain the power >>> output >>> of the engine rather than improve it... >> >> Evidently :) >> >> My old leads were a set of Bosch, which must have done over 30,000 miles. >> At >> least Bougicords are what SAAB put on the car from the factory and have a >> replacement schedule for 70,000 Km, so they'll be good for a lot longer >> than >> the Bosch leads. > > Gotcha. I was going to go on about OEM leads tending to be better than > alternatives, but I prefer glowplugs to sparkplugs and try to avoid such > sparkies wherever possible. ;) D'oh. "Gotcha" here means, "I agree and we're on the same wavelength" rather than "hahaha you're wrong, boo boo face" or whatever. :-p -- The DervMan www.dervman.com