I’m a big fan of Taylor Spiro Wound, even the lower cost High Energy sets work well for a long time even near headers.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/tay-64601?seid=srese2&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brands+%7C+T&utm_term=4581596235432543&utm_content=GSAPI+5ba2a4366829c#overview

Bogie

 

I’m a big fan of Taylor Spiro Wound

Me too. Even their terminals are nicer quality than most. But use a proper crimper. And if you ever mess up or need to shorten a wire, you can buy a bag a terminals from them.

The best way I've found to dimple a header tube is to remove the header, and then make the dimple by smacking a body dolly or a socket with a BFH. Or if your spark plugs are old school full length, maybe some ISO size plugs will help.

 

Moroso Mag-Tune wire sets are also good on a budget.

Wouldn't use the Accels or any other carbon/graphite core wires, stainless wound only for me, they last much, much longer.

 

Well I ended up sticking them on this afternoon as the old wires were chaffed and had 6 of one and 2 odd balls.
Plugs I pulled were white and very lean. Had 5 R45TS Delcos and 3 accel shorty plugs in it too....sigh.
I installed Delco R44TS and the yellow wires fired it off and driving had a lean miss from hell going down the road. Figuring maybe it is getting more spark energy now and was lean to begin with started richening up the carb. I swapped step up springs and got um lifting when ya crack the throttle, that helped but still missing, next i tried the thinner metering rods...better yet, but still a little miss below 2K.
But one thing that sucks, is #6 cylinder I had to cut the boot off(just like the former owner had) cause the header tube is sooooo close I cant get the wire on, so I slide a heatshield boot over the terminal.

 

That miss you can't get rid of is likely to be the lack of a real boot on the #6 wire....I bet it arcs over to the tube.

You would be better off to dimple the tube for boot clearance.

My experience with Accel Super Stock wires was they work fine but are really short lived before the core breaks down....i had a miss midway through the second summer on a set.

I've got 25 year old Moroso Blue Max spiral core stainless, still work just fine.

 

I’ve had similar experience with Accel’s plugs and wires, they just don’t hold up to everyday use.

Where the header comes so close to the plug boot you just have to deal with it. That can be dimpling the offending header tube, squeezing a heat shield between header tube and plug boot this can be nothing more than a piece of beer can, or wrapping the header or plug boot with high temp insulating tape. This isn’t pretty for the chrome crowd but it solves the engineering problem.

Bogie

 

The metering rods seemed to do it.I selected one that richened up the cruise mixture but not the power section according to yee ole chart. However after I did take a boot off an old wire and put it on. I had to shorten were it goes around the ceramic a bit to squeeze it in there but its on. And I put one of those asbestos looking heat boots over it.
Only way to get it to click on the terminal is to wedge a screw driver between the boot and headers and it was JUST wide enough.
They are swap meet headers the guy stuck on there that are I guess for a camaro, which is similar to G body headers but not quiet.A freind has my old Hedman G body headers at his house I may grab um blast um and paint um and use them next year when I make a few changes. These headers sit wider at the collectors and dont line up with the double hump crossmember anyways. But for now I have many other things to attend to. If I were to take um off to dimple um Id just change um out.

 

Lots of people posting lately about the decline in quality of MSD products since they were gobbled up by the Holley private equity piranhas, but I buy their raw 8.5mm wire and terminate them myself as I like their double crimp terminals. Any thoughts about MSD?

 

I stopped using MSD wires about 20 years ago. In service they would start out great then after a little while would develop these mysterious misfires that were only temporarily solved by replacing the them with fresh wires, then rinse and repeat.

Bogie

 

Put my set of these on in 2014. Used a proper crimp tool and kept away from exhaust.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-860825r
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/rnm-1101-90-p

 

I bought a set of Moroso's insulating sleeves for the wires closest to the headers. A lot cheaper than their top-of-the-line wires.