Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:15:12 +0100 From: "DervMan" <thedervmannospaml.com> Subject: Re: Dead Cheap Performance Enhancement
"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.nospam.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. ;) -- The DervMan www.dervman.com
