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    #31
    Originally posted by miamibob View Post
    Yeah, the $5 is like "Subic Bay pricing"!!
    I lived in the PI (Subic Bay & Cubi Point) for 5 years. I loved it !! Lots of good memories.

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      #32
      Originally posted by sly View Post
      I've heard of the radio noise idea and the water idea... considering the shape of my cap and rotor I just changed (after 30K miles) and it had ZERO corrosion on it... I'd say it works for the moisture aspect.
      Being an electrical guy, sly, can you clarify whether rubber provides any kind of insulating effect for electromagnetic radiation? I know it's an insulator because it's non-conductive, but I've never heard of rubber being used as a shielding to prevent interference.

      2000 Grand Marquis LS HPP, a hand-me-down in 2008 with 128,000 km; 175,000 km as of July 2014
      mods: air filter box 'tuba', headlight relay harness, J-mod (around 186,350 km), 70mm throttle body, KYB Gas-A-Just shocks, aluminum driveshaft, ARA3 PCM

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        #33
        Tom you really have lived all over the place!
        Originally posted by Mainemantom View Post
        I lived in the PI (Subic Bay & Cubi Point) for 5 years. I loved it !! Lots of good memories.

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          #34
          Originally posted by IPreferDIY View Post
          Being an electrical guy, sly, can you clarify whether rubber provides any kind of insulating effect for electromagnetic radiation? I know it's an insulator because it's non-conductive, but I've never heard of rubber being used as a shielding to prevent interference.
          I haven't either, and since I haven't tested it... I can't verify it. Shielding is usually metal based to "conduct the RF to ground" and since rubber doesn't do that, I wouldn't think it would work as such. If anyone wants to test it, they could take a spare one and put it over their cell phone during a call and see if it drops the call. Be sure to have really good signal at the time of the test. Now it would work as added shielding for spike protection from the cap and rotor, but if the wires, cap, and rotor are in good shape, this shouldn't be an issue.

          Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
          rides: 93 Crown Vic LX (The Red Velvet Cake), 2000 Crown Vic base model (Sandy), 2003 Expedition (the vacation beast)

          Originally posted by gadget73
          ... and it should all work like magic and unicorns and stuff.

          Originally posted by dmccaig
          Overhead, some poor bastards are flying in airplanes.

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            #35
            I just read in another forum that the rubber helps keep temperature away from the distributor.
            90 Colony Park LS with GT 40 heads and intake. HO cam, 65 MM TB, 67 MM EGR spacer. Has a 75 MM Pro Flow mass air sensor. Borla XS mufflers. 3L55. Shift kit, 2000 stall Tq convertor...Bilstein shocks, front and rear sway bars.
            90 Colony Park LS 64,000 miles all original. 3L55 tow package....front and rear sway bars.
            91 Grand Marquis GS....HO motor..Bilstein shocks poly bushings and police swaybars. This one handles the best.
            70 Torino Squire with M code 351 Cleveland 3.00 has Magnaflow mufflers. Hidden headlights and power windows. All original

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