electronic distributors - any further feedback?

[Derek Sheldon]

This is my first attempt at faking up the new distributor to look like an original one, jobs done:

I stripped the body of everything and painted it black and ran an oily cloth over it whilst tacky.

I tapped the oiler hole to 1/4 bsw and screwed in a bent tube type oiler - with a tiny bit of loctite.

I drilled and tapped two holes to BA5 and attached the timing plate (it's a little high in this first one).

I removed the pins and cap clips, opened out the hole very lightly and refitted some of the original type split pins and clips.

I used heat shrink on the wires to hold them together.

From this:



To this:





If anyone has any clever ideas about the wire connections and how to make them more period at the cap end I would be very interested to read your thoughts.

I think what you have achieved would fool a less picky inspection, good job. The shrink wrap is either not shrunk enough or needs to be a smaller size which would require taking the connections off first. I would use just a small piece of the larger near the dizzy.great something to emulate.