how do you all route your plug wires? got pics?

[Lord Warlock]

This weekend I got a new set of plug wires, a braided wire set to show off a little in the engine bay.  The set was supposedly specifically for a 440, but there is extra wire I'll have to route around objects, so it looks like I'll have to get a few wire looms.  Just wondering how others have routed them or used seperators to make the engine bay look neat.  Is there an engine picture thread somewhere? 

[1974dodgecharger]

zip ties the best ever.....

[Nacho-RT74]

stock or aftermarket setup ?

[Lord Warlock]

Mostly stock looking except a few chrome pieces and braided steel wires.  Other than the flashy bits its using the stock intake, valve covers and breather. 

[oldcarnut]

From my Coronet R/T

[Mopar Nut]

Gentlemen, show your engines!!

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?topic=84713.msg951753;topicseen#msg951753

[Nacho-RT74]

and... STOCK WIRES length ? want to use the stock wire looms and brackets ? If so, you got the answer

[Lord Warlock]

Can't say they are stock length, its been a looooong time since I've had stock wires on the car, but the set I got were supposedly custom fit for a 440 in a charger, and the two longest are a bit too long even for the drivers side rear two cylinders.  They do look good in there.  Good enough to make me go a little overboard with braided steel hoses, just ordered two heater hoses, 25 feet of vacuum hose (plan on replacing all of the lines to the headlight doors, and off the manifold to air tank with SS braided hoses.  Decided I didn't really like using braided hose covers, so went with spectre SS hose kits from Summit Racing.

Thanks for the engine link, I'll spend some time going through that tonight.  

As for the stock looms, even if they were available to me, I doubt the 8mm braided wires would fit in them, as even the 7mm wires I used to have a long time ago didn't fit those very well.  I'll have to add a photo of what I have so far, I should get the other hoses in a few days, they should look a little cleaner than the sleeves I have on the upper radiator hose and one of the current AC water lines. 

[Nacho-RT74]

I trimmed out a little bit the stock brackets to accept the 8 mms firecore250 wires in them ( and still will accept the 7 mms )

[myk]

From my Coronet R/T

Jeez that looks really clean...

[Lord Warlock]

Yes it does look very neat, nice engine bay.  I've got the factory exhaust manifolds so have to work around those instead. The small sized looms I have don't work on bottom valve cover bolts.   Looked at the engine thread, does give me something to reference.

I did notice that there doesn't seem to be a consensus on how to install the hoses from water pump to Heater core and AC inlets, I may have to look that up just to make sure I put it on right.  I saw some using the short bend hose from AC to heater core from the bottom and top of the AC pipes. Not sure if its intentional or not. 

[A383Wing]

I used the heater hoses with the 90* bend in one end for a neater look at the water pump connections

[Rolling_Thunder]

I did them this way on a few customer cars...    kept it looking clean and off the headers   

[myk]

NICE...

[Mopar Nut]

Sweet!