19-06-2018, 08:13 AM
Perhaps I am more fortunate than most in having the ability to fully refurbish a Lucas distributor, I also have a strong desire to keep cars in period and not to modify then for the sake of it. And that comes from a life long special builder! I also stand by my challenge to pit an AS NEW Lucas against an Accuspark, I guess none of the converts are going to do this as they plainly don't have access to an as new lucas, and I am not going to waste my money on an electronic one when I can not see any advantage. BTW I have fitted an electronic conversion to one of my rebuilt Lucas units with no measurable performance gain so removed it again. If Accucsark want to send me one I will carry out an honest and measurable review of performance gains and build quality, if I am wrong I will eat my words, but I warn Accuspark if they do consider this I will be completely honest with my findings and they may not want that.
I would be far more pleased to see companies like Accuspark producing accurate replicas of the originals rather than introducing what I consider to be unnecessary new technology, obviously that is simply my opinion but I do get exasperated by when people are lead to believe they have to make these changes for reliability when that is simply not true. Rory I understand and appreciate your desire to have an off the shelf bolt on goodie which takes only a few minutes to fit and in the short term solves the problem of a worn out distributor, you are in business and commercially that makes complete sense. The point is if you had access to an off the shelf new std points DK4 for a reasonable price you would be able to fit that even more easily and gain the same advantage as well as satisfied customers. I feel for the owners who on the basis of lightly tested recommendation have jumped in, particularly with the Dynamator, and ended up with expensive damage to their engines, what makes it worse in my eyes is that almost all who did so will have had absolutely no need to in the first place. And whilst on the subject of dynamators, as seasoned users here know I often have little time for Bob Culvers writings, however he raised a very valid point recently about the unseen damage occurring from all the steel fragments now embedded in the white metal and exacerbating the demise of your crank journals. I could just keep my trap shut, I am sure some would prefer that I did, however I believe in speaking out if I believe in something, and sometimes controversial as it may be a few home truths never do any harm.
I would be far more pleased to see companies like Accuspark producing accurate replicas of the originals rather than introducing what I consider to be unnecessary new technology, obviously that is simply my opinion but I do get exasperated by when people are lead to believe they have to make these changes for reliability when that is simply not true. Rory I understand and appreciate your desire to have an off the shelf bolt on goodie which takes only a few minutes to fit and in the short term solves the problem of a worn out distributor, you are in business and commercially that makes complete sense. The point is if you had access to an off the shelf new std points DK4 for a reasonable price you would be able to fit that even more easily and gain the same advantage as well as satisfied customers. I feel for the owners who on the basis of lightly tested recommendation have jumped in, particularly with the Dynamator, and ended up with expensive damage to their engines, what makes it worse in my eyes is that almost all who did so will have had absolutely no need to in the first place. And whilst on the subject of dynamators, as seasoned users here know I often have little time for Bob Culvers writings, however he raised a very valid point recently about the unseen damage occurring from all the steel fragments now embedded in the white metal and exacerbating the demise of your crank journals. I could just keep my trap shut, I am sure some would prefer that I did, however I believe in speaking out if I believe in something, and sometimes controversial as it may be a few home truths never do any harm.
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