For any of you who are planning on doing over the valve cover wires on your LT1 cars don't get the Taylor OTVC wire kit - they're pieces of junk.

I had gotten the kit for my 97 since I plan on doing headers in the future and my car needed new plugs and wires. So I figured I'd go ahead and do the OVTC wires right away, put them on and save myself some time in the future.

Well this past Sunday the car club I'm in had a Mod Day and since I needed help doing the plug/wire change I went to it. It took myself and 4 other people helping me to get the wires made since they're not premade wires and get them all installed on my car (myself and another person making up the wires, 1 person working on the drivers side and 1 on the passenger side). It took us most of the day to get it all done.

I went out Monday morning to go to work and I noticed that my car had a very slight stumble to it when I was stopped at several red lights but not when I was driving but I though nothing of it since the stock wires practically fell apart when we took them off so I figured the car was just "relearning" things with the new wires. Later on Monday night though it was still doing that and all of a sudden I got an SES code. I checked the code with my code reader and it turned out my car was throwing a P0300 (random multiple misfire code). Needless to say I said crap several times.

Now today (Tuesday) on the way home from work my car started stumbling even worse and even started to shutter so bad I though I was going to be vibrated right out the drivers door. On the short ride home after I'd had to stop at a red light and when I started to accelerate the steady SES light started flashing at me and then went solid again. I babied my car home (only a few blocks luckily) and read the codes once more. Still only the P0300 code showing up.

After I let the car cool down for several hours I went and hand run the wires to see if I could feel/find anything. Well I did - at least 3 of the wires have wires that are broke on the inside of them that you can feel when you run the wires through your hands, even though the outside silicon covering looks fine. It looks like I figured out what the problem was/is - the pos Taylor wires. They didn't even last 48 hours on my car and I've put less then 60 miles on the car since they were put on.

So if anyone of you are planning on doing the OTVC wires cause of headers or any other reason, get a brand other then Taylor for them or you'll just be wasting your money and having to do a wire swap again a few days after you've just done it.

That sucks. I get really ticked to when I do alot of work and it turns out it was all for nothing cause of a junky part. Oh,should the title of the thread be OTVC?

Yea it should be OTVC not OVTC. I'm still so mad I can't spell.

But at least you know what I'm going through Tyler, we done all that work Sunday and now myself and other person are going to be having to do them all over again cause of those stupid Taylor pieces of junk.

Wires shoudn't break that easily ( I think that they're coil-spum inner wires.) But honestly, I've done the same thing with the acdelco's the first time I did a tune-up on a LT1. There's some tough bends going around corners, pulling them through looms and what-not. I've done it a couple of times since then. Usually happens when I rush things. For looms, I use Black-Magic(armor-all stuff) on the part of wire that I have to pull through the looms, and it makes it easier. If you're using oversize wires, like my MSD's, you have to be VERY careful around looms and the stupid heat plates. With the over the covers, you usually don't use the stock looms...but there is still a ton of bends. With how long it took four people, I bet some aggravation was involved. Get you a roll of the MSD wire, connectors, and boots. Take your time in your garage, and do them all by yourself over a couple of days. Measure twice, cut once...wires get expensive. Vacuum hose of 3.5ft legnth works best for measurements when I do it.....So you really think it was the wires and nothing to do with installation...........? How much were they?

Dennis

Yea I really do think it was the wires and not the installation. The guys who were helping me install them have done OTVC wires many times so they did know what they were doing. Also two of us were making up the wires and 2 guys were installing them (one on top and one under the car so that no one had to keep getting up and down to get them on). And we used the OTVC wire looms with them along with the slip on heat covers on the wires themselves to protect them from any hot spots they'd get near. I did eventually ohm the wires out. Out of the 8 wires plus the coil wires, 6 of them were bad. As for the cost, right now I can't remember what they ended up costing me in total but it was the Taylor OTVC kit where you had to get the LT1 ends seperately and put them on yourself besides having to cut the wires themselves to length.

..good info to know...thanks! Sorry that you had to find out the hard way so that we didn't have to........


Dennis