302travis

I will look into this for sure. But I would tend to think not, only because I replaced the coil about 2 yrs ago when i was having the same problem and it didn't fix it. But it at least ran great for about one day lol But I think that day was just luck more likely. Wires I've replaced a million times, never fixed the problem with wires. Which brings up another question, because, I bought the Hooker Competition Full lengths 5 years ago and I HIGHLY recommend ANOTHER BRAND of headers for our trucks because these greatly interfere with the stock 45 degree plug wires on about 3 different cylinders and will force you to use a 90 degree boot instead on the cylinder head ends. But That made me think... Could a 90 degree boot that close to headers and the head itself cause a good chance of arcing? Because 90 degrees are usually only on distributor side only right? And don't need as much of a boot because the dist. cap is farther from any metal as opposed to the cylinder head side of the wires. So, could it be i need to find a way to use a 45 boot without it burning everytime on the headers? I was thinking plug wire heat wrap, but wasn't sure if it would prevent them from burning because the boot will sit RIGHT ON TOP of the d*** Hooker headers if I use anything other than a 90 degree boot! They perform well, but honestly I would hope a different set of headers would not have this interference issue i would hope. Enjoy this novel, and I hope everything I have posted helps narrow things down some. Please read the posts I made at the end of page one a few minutes ago as well

Atomic Monkey

I have long tubes on my '92 Bronco. I extended the harness, and put the O2 sensor in the collector on the passenger side. The O2s have heaters into them, so long as they're not the single wire style, so putting them too far away really isn't an issue. I made sure to do all that I could to make the computer think its all stock. I welded on a tube to the first header tube for the EGR. I kept the smog pump, and have that all hooked up. I also cut up an Mustang H-pipe for the cats. All I did was replace the stock fuel regulator with an adjustable regulator to give it for fuel to compensate for the added flow.

302travis

Ok so I did about the same thing, I have the O2 sensor in the passenger side and it's not a single wire. But I didn't put in an EGR tube, my cats are gone, and the smog pump is gone as well. But anytime I plug in the O2 sensor i'll get lean misfires. Question though, how much can you change the A/F ratio using an adjustable fuel pres. regulator?

Never_Evil

22* of timing under load will cause power loss. You are firing the plug too early causing a larger counter force to the compression. Back it off to about 14* to 16*. You will still have power and when you approach a hill, the engine will not have to work against itself as hard.