View Poll Results: Should I buy a new distributor OR rebuild the old distributor?
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Distributor ... Keep or New?
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Sep 2010
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From: Emerald Isle NC
It's a crap shoot... If your going to rebuild the orig. REBUILD it. A new cap and vaccum adv isn't a rebuild. New bushings, shaft, cross gear, etc. Find a good machine shop to press in and hone the bushings (take the new shaft with you). Good luck with the cross gear. Pertronix units are flimsy, and not really HEI. Bottom line, you get what you pay for... spend the $$. After trying an orig. rebuild/Pertronix II, my Performance Distributors DUI is going in Monday... It's real HEI, precurved, made in America by pros, and expensive.
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Joined: Jul 2010
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It's a crap shoot... If your going to rebuild the orig. REBUILD it. A new cap and vaccum adv isn't a rebuild. New bushings, shaft, cross gear, etc. Find a good machine shop to press in and hone the bushings (take the new shaft with you). Good luck with the cross gear. Pertronix units are flimsy, and not really HEI. Bottom line, you get what you pay for... spend the $$. After trying an orig. rebuild/Pertronix II, my Performance Distributors DUI is going in Monday... It's real HEI, precurved, made in America by pros, and expensive.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 914
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From: Aberdeen, Scotland
just to back LArs up!
All,
Lars rebuilt my distributor something like .... 5+ years ago! I just had the engine rebuilt and ignored all of the "advice" to "upgrade" to an MSD Dissy etc. ...etc ...
Well the "old" LS-5 (now 489) pumped out 511 hp on points! 'nough said for me. I can adjust dwell when I need to and don't put alot of miles on the car.... so a 500 horse 'vette is fine with me. If I want to go "faster" ... I will with gearing.
carbster
Lars rebuilt my distributor something like .... 5+ years ago! I just had the engine rebuilt and ignored all of the "advice" to "upgrade" to an MSD Dissy etc. ...etc ...
Well the "old" LS-5 (now 489) pumped out 511 hp on points! 'nough said for me. I can adjust dwell when I need to and don't put alot of miles on the car.... so a 500 horse 'vette is fine with me. If I want to go "faster" ... I will with gearing.
carbster
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Joined: Jul 2010
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All,
Lars rebuilt my distributor something like .... 5+ years ago! I just had the engine rebuilt and ignored all of the "advice" to "upgrade" to an MSD Dissy etc. ...etc ...
Well the "old" LS-5 (now 489) pumped out 511 hp on points! 'nough said for me. I can adjust dwell when I need to and don't put alot of miles on the car.... so a 500 horse 'vette is fine with me. If I want to go "faster" ... I will with gearing.
carbster
Lars rebuilt my distributor something like .... 5+ years ago! I just had the engine rebuilt and ignored all of the "advice" to "upgrade" to an MSD Dissy etc. ...etc ...
Well the "old" LS-5 (now 489) pumped out 511 hp on points! 'nough said for me. I can adjust dwell when I need to and don't put alot of miles on the car.... so a 500 horse 'vette is fine with me. If I want to go "faster" ... I will with gearing.
carbster
