Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:33:08 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Dead Cheap Performance Enhancement
in article 44f05ea6$0$2551$fa0fcedbnospam.zen.co.uk, DervMan at thedervmannospaml.com wrote on 26/8/06 15:44: > "DervMan" <thedervmannospaml.com> wrote in message > news:44f05d68$0$1386$db0fefd9nospam.zen.co.uk... >> "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:C11601C5.4FBC%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk... >>> in article 44efe3b9$0$1387$da0feed9nospam.zen.co.uk, DervMan at >>> thedervmannospaml.com wrote on 26/8/06 07:00: >>> >>>> "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> news:C1152B9C.3FD%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk... >>> >>>>> I happened across a new set of Bougicord leads for just over 20 quid >>>>> (available from <http://www.partsforsaabs.com/> if anyone else is >>>>> interested), which is a very good price indeed. I popped the leads on >>>>> this >>>>> evening and we went for a drive ... WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE! >>>> >>>> Surely, the old leads were shot? Funky leads merely retain the power >>>> output >>>> of the engine rather than improve it... >>> >>> Evidently :) >>> >>> My old leads were a set of Bosch, which must have done over 30,000 miles. >>> At >>> least Bougicords are what SAAB put on the car from the factory and have a >>> replacement schedule for 70,000 Km, so they'll be good for a lot longer >>> than >>> the Bosch leads. >> >> Gotcha. I was going to go on about OEM leads tending to be better than >> alternatives, but I prefer glowplugs to sparkplugs and try to avoid such >> sparkies wherever possible. ;) > > > D'oh. "Gotcha" here means, "I agree and we're on the same wavelength" > rather than "hahaha you're wrong, boo boo face" or whatever. :-p Indeed! I read it that way ... Which proves we're on the same wavelength ;) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/