Spark plug wires 308 made at home

I've made up a set of wires for my 77 GTB a few years back using resistor wire that I purchased in an auto parts store. This was typical center graphite cord and easy to cut and pierce on the dizzy end and screw into the extentions. Time to redo but have a few questions. I can fit 8mm in the dizzy and have been talking to Kingsborne about wires and ends. They have a wide assortment of ends and also have extensions in either resistor type or plain. My 77 has RED extensions which I understood were non resistor types. The question s i have are the new wires are spiral wound and do not have a center core. If this is the case then how can you pierce the wire and have good contact at the dizzy. Next is if I go to a solid wire and use resistor plugs will I have radio noise.And last if I use solid wire and a resistor type of extension do I need resistor type plugs to keep the radio noise down. Oh as you can guess the issue here is keeping the cost under $100 for the set.

<<The question s i have are the new wires are spiral wound and do not have a center core<<

think you misunderstand...spiral wound definately has a core (of graphite thread) "it's wound around".

the ONLY way to insure a complete circuit (pierceing the spiral) is with an Ohm Meter and the subsequent "Testing After each wire is installed".(like Jeremy said, OHMS, ir not just a wird anymore, it's THE LAW ) poorly manufactured wires (even though new) will fail the Ohm Test.

In the Ferrari Game price is NOT the Overiding Consideration to the prudent Tuner - SUCCESS IS!

Failure is COSTLY - SUCCESS is PRICELESS!!!

I just made up a set of plug wires for my 308. Bought a set of 8 mm Accel universal radio suppression wires from one of the various American Hot Rod Shop vendor places for something around $30.00 USD or so. The receiving holes in the 308's distributor cap varied from one terminal to the other - in some cases, the plug wire slid right in, others required a dab of silicone grease, and on a couple I had to slightly shave down the outer plug wire casing a bit with a razor knife.

I concur that checking continuity with a VOM is imperative, as often the pierce connection is not good. In my case, I also checked the continuity of the existing wires (which appeared to be OEM) prior to removal, and found that 2 of the 8 were open! The spark was forced to 'jump the gap' on these wires, which is far from ideal.

This is a cheap and easy D.I.Y. project which anyone can do on a Saturday afternnon.