Go to budget dizzy

Mattax said
Actually my understanding is the only distributors he works on are Chrysler made, Prestolites for Chryslers, and some Mallory built units for Chryslers.
I'm a little fuzzy on what you mean by budget?
I'm sure you don't mean Skip White mystery distributor. View attachment 1715677913
We can't turn the clock back to when a distributor from our local parts store was $15 or $20. :(
I would not pay $50 from the junkyard for a who knows what. That's way too much for a what might be a core or maybe even just parts.

Rick Ehrenberg's ads claim his small block distributors have same curve as the Chrysler built DC/MP distributors did. Likewise his B and RB have an advance like the 60's HiPo engines had. FWIW I've posted those advance curves here. No one I can recall has posted an advance they actually measured on an E_berg distributor. But if they are what they claim, that's a good starting point for most perfromance v-8 4bbls.

Thanks Mattox, your responses to my questions have always yielded great food for thought. By budget I'm talking about anything less than a hundred bucks for a 'ready to run' distributor. But I'm also looking for something with performance in mind, meaning something like the MP in which I can adjust the total advance to whatever I want/need. I know someone will suggest the plate that's available and that's a very legit option, but I'd rather not depend on something like that for every distributor I ever mess with. Feels like an added "dizzy tax".

To be fair, the units I was going to get from the yard, were in what they call the "old car lot" portion and everything is literally double, no matter what it is. Again, I went elsewhere and walked away with two for $10 ea.

Maybe these factory units are simply about as budget as one can get. With that, the "plate" is less of a hit since at that point, as long as everything is "good", I'm all in for 45 bucks. Even for a cheap *** like me, that's not bad.

Part of this is not wanting to depend on bolt on solutions so I can learn as much as possible. It's been way too long since I've done anything like any of this so I'm very late to the party.