The International CBX Owners Association

greetings cbxers
getting a 1980 cbx back on the road after years of sitting and would appreciate some opinions on plug wires.i am putting on new accel coils to replace the originals and have taken out the DR8ES-L plugs that were in the bike and replaced with D8EA .
i have a new set of honda wire wires or the silicon graphite suppression wires that come with the coils to choose from.
wire ,graphite or alternate every other one ?

I run "Dyna S" silicone with graphite cores which have been faultless over 27 odd years....

I am using the wires that came with the Accels. Although they are the pits to finish. The cramping that you have to do yourself is a little crappy. I have gotten unfavorable comments about the yellow color

Welcome jamese, hope you enjoy the site and the company!

Excuse my manners jamese, Welcome to the site....

thanks for the welcome

i think i will go with the ones that come with the coils and i can put some black split loom over them to hide them if i don't like the look.

i will post some pic's and history when the body parts come back from the paint booth.hopefully this week.

Look forward to it jamese....

put the coils and wires on last night and found a mistake i had made earlier with the first set of plugs and honda wires.the ngk plugs do not come with the little cap that threads on the end (and are probably a good thing to have)of the spark plug.
when i first got the bike the carbs had supposedly been rebuilt so i put them back on along with new OEM wires and "R"plugs.it ran but with two cold cylinders.after taking #6 bowl off i found the float on upside down.
off came the rack again .two floats on wrong and all bowls were full of nasty stuff.carbs had never been rebuilt.rebuilt and reinstalled carbs and started up with all 6 cylinders firing but running a little rich.
anyhow my point is it ran with a very poor connection between wire and plug even with a totally messed up carb.if i had not decided to change the coils it would have stayed that way for who knows how long and what a headache that could have been.
( also it is about impossible to buy them little caps by themselves.)

The plugs I've purchased over the past few years have not had the little ends you speak of. Every one still fires OK though.

It depends on the design of the wire caps whether you need the metal tops on the spark plugs or not. The Accel caps require them.

I had the same problem. I went down to my local Walmart and bought a few plugs from their singles misfit bucket for .50 each. I used the ends and threw away the odd plugs.
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Check out aviation suppliers, they seem to replace them for some reason...
Here is a contact in the UK, shipping would be more than the item though...

http://shop1.actinicexpress.co.uk/shops ... onda_coils

EMS wrote:It depends on the design of the wire caps whether you need the metal tops on the spark plugs or not. The Accel caps require them.

right.the plugs function the same with or without them. with caps that fit tight over the plugs the wires and plugs stayed in contact and the engine ran.i just think that at some point they might have backed off after some road vibration and some arching would occur.
the good thing is it ran again tonight .i did have to bypass the fuel line diaphram to make things work sooooo...........over to the carb board to find out what everyone else has done .fix or eliminate ?