magnecor or formula power

fenton · Post by **fenton** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:11 am

Need to replace some leads
Magnecor 8mm on offer at the mo from RPI just over £100
Formula Power £80.
Anyone had experience with formula power.

DaveEFI · Post by **DaveEFI** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:23 am

I'd go for Bosch at half the price.

fenton · Post by **fenton** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:26 am

Mmmmm I thought about the bosch leads.
Bought lucas a year ago and failed already. Don't want to be buying another set next year.

richardpope50 · Post by **richardpope50** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:49 am

Powerspark had the best spec for the price - http://www.simonbbc.com/ - and got a good rating when I asked on this Forum

DaveEFI · Post by **DaveEFI** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:09 pm

fenton wrote:Mmmmm I thought about the bosch leads.
Bought lucas a year ago and failed already. Don't want to be buying another set next year.

Lucas these days is cheap Chinese stuff. Genuine Lucas would be so old as not to use the latest technology. They would likely still be carbon string.

Bosch are one of the largest car electrics makers. Their leads (ones I bought from Halfords) are conductive plastic. I used them for many years before changing to EDIS.

The cost of 'posh' plug leads is a con. They don't even use copper - which is the expensive part of any normal cable. I'd estimate the true cost of Magnicore cable at about 50p a metre for say 50 metres. Much less in bigger quantities. So like many of these things you're paying through the nose for a name.

Rant over.

mgbv8 · Post by **mgbv8** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:23 pm

richardpope50 wrote:Powerspark had the best spec for the price - http://www.simonbbc.com/ - and got a good rating when I asked on this Forum

We use them on both race cars and they seem fine. Been on just over a year now.

Perry

SimpleSimon · Post by **SimpleSimon** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:15 pm

mgbv8 wrote:
richardpope50 wrote:Powerspark had the best spec for the price - http://www.simonbbc.com/ - and got a good rating when I asked on this Forum

We use them on both race cars and they seem fine. Been on just over a year now.

Perry

Yep