ok i had a terrible miss...to the point where the car would bout cut off when you try to take off....saw some of my plug wires arcing and so i figured it was time to change em. i took all of the old plug wires off and 2 of them were burned really bad. so i swapped out plugs and put some taylor wires and heat shields on. i was holding the throttle at about 2500 to see if there was anymore arcing and now i have a few header tubes glowing...what do i do next?

 

If the car's sitting still for 10+ minutes with the motor reving your headers are going to glow.

 

but if that was the case wouldn't all of them glow? only certain tubes are glowing

 

Because of the wire problems I'm thinking that there is a typical engine rich condition, plus excess fuel igniting in the tubes will cause the glowing.
Check that all plugs are connected and functioning correctly.

But for further insight:
The Debate.

 

Did the plugs look evenly "sooted" or different, pointing to certain cylinders firing differently?

 

well the ones where the wires were burned were probably the worst ones

 

I thought glowing tubes meant the engine is running too lean..

 

according to the scanmaster its running to rich

 

The only couple of times I have seen glowing headers is when the valves were adjusted too tight. But that's not your case.

ZMAN

 

Hopefully it's mine. Will check out the other thread.