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Old 02-04-2013 | 12:00 AM
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What are the best plugs and wires for a 98' 4.0?
Old 02-04-2013 | 12:02 AM
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Champion copper plugs and Belden wires
Old 02-04-2013 | 12:02 AM
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What are the best plugs and wires for a 98' 4.0?
stock Champion Copper plugs and 8.5 magnacor wires
Old 02-04-2013 | 12:37 AM
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I had a performance gain when I put the champions in gapped to .040 and msd wires.
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Champion copper plugs gapped to 035

Plenty of good quality wire options to choose from........just stay away from cheap wires!
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What parts store carry the champions....and wires range from $15-$31-82....kind of a gap from the $31-$82...Bosch was 31 msd was 82...are the Bosch wires worth it?
Old 02-04-2013 | 08:45 AM
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I found that the dealers wires were cheaper than the "premium" wire sets at Advance/O'Reilly etc. I picked up a set of Mopar wires for under $50. Exact same as the original ones too.

Figure that the original wires lasted 200K miles. Never had good luck with auto-store wires. At all...
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I love my NGK wires. Same good quality as Belden but they're actually numbered! Helps the tard in all of us. I see them on sale up here for around $24 I think, US prices I guess should be around that.

Champion or NGK copper plugs at 0.035". I wouldn't bother with changing gap unless you've done some upgrades... In which case you should already know what kind of plugs to run lol

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Hmm makes me think magnacor wires where over kill now....
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