Hi all, picked up an engine for my car yesterday and the seller included this dizzy for free. Can’t see any markings on it and I wondered if anyone recognised it? Fits a LA motor and I noticed that the reluctor gap was huge and that two brass terminals I the pic were not attached inside the dizzy. orpotentially useful?
Mystery distributor
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That's a Skip White/Pro Form/Chinkesium version of the MSD Pro Billet electronic distributor.
Easy for you to say Rusty
Its still a "dizzy", no?
Its still a "dizzy", no?
67Dart273
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Easy for you to say Rusty
Its still a "distributor.", no?
Absolutely correct!!
Thanks, I did wonder. Use it or not? Currently still got a points set up that works fine. Also note the above dizzy has no vac advance. .and the reluctor gap shows clear daylight compared to a correctly set OEM electronic dizzy.
67Dart273
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Thank you for not using the incredibly annoying "dizzy" word, as I'm sure your vehicle also does not have a "carby", an "injecty", or a "reary" or a "tranny". I also doubt it has a "radioy" or a "heaty". I'm wondering, though if the "starty" works well?
All of this distributor talk is making me dizzy....
dano
Evil Handy Man
lilfontleroy
annoyinglilLeroy
Those are all "improvements". NOT! LOL
Skip White, understand the risks.
Carbon button in distributor cap broken off, melted
More technical reviews of Skip White distributors here:
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Highlights include:
The end-play, as out of the box, was 62 thou, a bit much.
After 1,500 highway miles the reluctor stator came loose, the teeth of the rotor then started to make contact with the teeth on the coil pick up.
My observations so far, 'junk'.
-Al's428
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ahh yesss, the fabulous Skip White $50 Fake HEI. I can't begin to estimate how many of these chinese junk distributors have been bought, installed and left the car owner stranded on the side of the road on the first drive or soon thereafter.
-tmoble
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If my distributor machine could talk.
Some Ming Dynasty distributors have the guaranteed to damage your engine advance curve, no extra charge.
I have [also] seen them come out of the box with absolutely no lube in them, seize the upper bushing and spun it in the housing.
-Tuner
Thank, enough said.
..ah the joys of the English language, as a native speaker (I’m English) we can agree that ‘dizzy’ is indeed an abberation, a colloquialism if you will. However we’ll have to agree to disagree on other aspects of the lexicon, we say ‘boot’, you say ‘trunk’ and what you call a ‘hood’ we refer to quaintly as a ‘bonnet’. As another English speaking nation, Aussies most certainly refer annoyingly to the existence of a ‘car by’. What is one to do?
Roll with it!
I suspect we've picked up dizzy from the Australians who are also very much into motorsports and engines.
I don't recall anyone here saying 'dizzy' or 'carbie' 35 years ago. It's probably drifted over with increased international television and, of course, internet forums and video.
Absolutely agree, on the plus side those same media have helped me enormously with maintaining 50+yr old cars even if my language slips at timesRoll with it!
I suspect we've picked up dizzy from the Australians who are also very much into motorsports and engines.
I don't recall anyone here saying 'dizzy' or 'carbie' 35 years ago. It's probably drifted over with increased international television and, of course, internet forums and video.
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