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magnecor or formula power
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:11 am
by fenton
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:23 am
by DaveEFI
I'd go for Bosch at half the price.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:26 am
by fenton
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:49 am
by richardpope50
Powerspark had the best spec for the price -
http://www.simonbbc.com/ - and got a good rating when I asked on this Forum
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:09 pm
by DaveEFI
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.
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:23 pm
by mgbv8
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
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 2:15 pm
by SimpleSimon
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
