Honda 350 motor with dual plug set up. I can post a photo later. The inboard plugs are NGK C-10H, short small plugs. They are located on the inboard side of the head, under the cam box. There is very little clearance there between the bottom of the cam box and the tip of the sparking plug, roughly no more than .133 (Thanks, Lonewolf)
PVL ignition. The previous owner used the stock PVL rubber boots on the top of the plugs. In order to obtain clearance for the cam box to sit on top of the head, he ground down the bottom of the cam box, too much, and caused a hole to develop and fractures, causing an oil leak. So . . .
I am looking for the best way to connect the plug wire to the plug that has the smallest allowable clearance so I do not have to take anything away from the cam box. I ordered what looks like, in the Tucker Rocky catalog, the shortest connectors there. But . . .
NotNicky has suggested just connecting the plug wire with its little wire springy thing to the tip of the plug and then using electric shrink tubing, say two or three different sizes and shrinking the wire to the plug. Voila? (PS I got a NOS cam box off egay last week to replace the bad one)
My question is, will the lack of rubber insulation make the spark arc to the engine? Or, when it is running, as the plug is connected to the ignition, it will go to the plug regardless? I know that it will try to find the path of least resistance, so is the shrink tubing good enough?
PVL ignition. The previous owner used the stock PVL rubber boots on the top of the plugs. In order to obtain clearance for the cam box to sit on top of the head, he ground down the bottom of the cam box, too much, and caused a hole to develop and fractures, causing an oil leak. So . . .
I am looking for the best way to connect the plug wire to the plug that has the smallest allowable clearance so I do not have to take anything away from the cam box. I ordered what looks like, in the Tucker Rocky catalog, the shortest connectors there. But . . .
NotNicky has suggested just connecting the plug wire with its little wire springy thing to the tip of the plug and then using electric shrink tubing, say two or three different sizes and shrinking the wire to the plug. Voila? (PS I got a NOS cam box off egay last week to replace the bad one)
My question is, will the lack of rubber insulation make the spark arc to the engine? Or, when it is running, as the plug is connected to the ignition, it will go to the plug regardless? I know that it will try to find the path of least resistance, so is the shrink tubing good enough?