Anyone here bought a Dynaspark Opti? The procedures sound a little "fishy" to me on buying one.

First, the web site doesn't allow for purchasing. Next, when I send an email to customer service, they say they moved to a new location and don't have a land line yet but they can call me on their personal cell to take my credit card number. I want a Dynaspark but just can't accomodate that procedure in these days of fraud.

Would appreciate some feedback by anyone that has bought one of these as to where and how they bought it.

Thanks!

Billy

 

You might do a forum search on Dynaspark. I believe I recall reading something a few months ago about them moving. Maybe others here that have a better memory than me. My memory is .

 

At one time they had an excellent product, maybe they still do. Don't hear much about them anymore. Makes you wonder!

 

I was dynaspark customer...
...thats all I can say

 

I bought mine about a year ago, and then I found out that the company was sold . I understand that they are still making Dynasparks. A very fine product, but customer service is a must when you spend $600 US Dlls on some part.

 

Hmmm, the problem, again. About a year ago, DTE a forum sponosr, sold the Dynaspark unit to employees. They assured everyone they'd honor all warranties, were working on new things, had some phone problems and would remedy the situation.

What can I say?

 

 

We didn't sell the product line to our employees, we sold the product line to a group of private individuals 1 1/2 years ago that reside in our city and they are not affiliated with DTE. We don't see them but only a couple of times per year on Holidays, but as far as we know now, they have moved to a larger facility and are ramping up production capacity- especially with their Gen III model. If you want anymore information other than this, you'll have to contact them directly.


This is the history of the Dynaspark Distributor product that will show up on their website soon.


"It's no secret that the stock GM Opti-Spark Ignition Distributor has its faults and continues to have them to this very day. Until a few years ago, many LT1 tuners, owners and enthusiasts were forced to replace countless failed, O.E. ignition distributors just to stay on the road and many high performance applications that required a better ignition distributor, had no place to turn to.

Philip J. Rickard, owner and CEO of Dynotech Engineering Inc. in Fort Wayne, IN. www.dynotech-eng.com was among one of those people and after having multiple O.E. Opti-Spark ignition failures with his own 1995 C4 Corvette at the time, he decided it was time to do something about it.

For those of you that don't know~ Phil is a mechanical engineer by education and has a long career in the automotive industry in various areas of expertise. Two of the most recent, note worthy being; that he was formerly with Lingenfelter Performance Engineering until he was hired from there as a professional engine builder/crew member for an SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge C5-R Corvette Racing Team. He holds multiple ASE/GM STG Certifications in the automotive field and went on to open his own 10,000 sq./ft. high performance business in 2001, Dynotech Engineering Inc.

One of the first things that Phil & Co. did after opening was to re-engineer the fail-prone, GM Opti-Spark disrtibutor. Phil targeted 11 weakness areas of the stock, O.E. Optispark Ignition Distributor and totally re-engineered those areas with reliability and performance in mind, so that the unit would support very high engine RPM reliably, on/off the track and do so while being able to withstand the harsh environment of an engine bay that is subjected to the outside elements.

After 7 long months of development, the new distributor he designed was given the name 'Dynaspark' as an aggregate collaboration of the "Dynotech" name and the GM "Opti-Spark". Dynotech Engineering's business statement is, "Performance Through Refinement" and given the extensiveness of this new LTx distributor design, that's no stretch of the imagination.

Ironically, the new Dynaspark Distributor design was not originally intended for public sale, as Phil wanted to simply install this new distributor onto his own Corvette for his own engine reliability enjoyment- just to see if he could make it work, but this new product was too good to keep under wraps for long....

After he validated it's performance on his own car, Phil took a sample of the his new product to the 2002 Performance Racing Industry Show (PRI Show) in Indianapolis and showed it to the powers that be at MSD, Mallory and Accel. Everyone at these companies really liked the concept and was very surprised to see that such a small, new, start-up company like Dynotech Engineering Inc. (DTE) had come up with such an innovative product before they did. In fact, many of them (including Todd Ryden of MSD) wanted to take detailed pictures of Phil's new product at that very show, but Phil refused, put the sample back into his satchel and walked away. DTE returned back to the shop that December afternoon to began preperations to go into full production of the aftermarket industry's first, major re-design of the LTx distributor for 2003- The Dynaspark Ignition Distributor.

DTE began producing this new product line in January of 2003 and Phil & Co. initially designed two versions of the Dynaspark Distributor to cover both models- the Gen I and the Gen II, which could be found on Corvettes, F-Body cars, B-body cars and so on. Another third design was also created- the Gen III, that completely eliminated the high voltage side of the ignition distributor and was specifically engineered to support other CNP ignition systems that were creeping their way into the aftermarket at that time. The Gen III design was designed, blueprinted and validated, but was never put into production at that time....until later.

DTE engineered, produced, marketed and sold the Dynaspark Ignition Distributor product line for 3 full years to multiple dealers and end users all-across the USA, including a few dealers overseas. The product line was a *HUGE* success from it's inception that was covered in many trade magazines, hosted on many online websites and was raced heavily in NHRA Stock Eliminator Drag Racing Classes. In fact, DTE was the absolute *FIRST* company to offer such a product, that larger companies like MSD and Accel are only just recently began bringing/copying to market after all this time....over *3 YEARS* AFTER DTE debuted their aftermarket LTx Dynaspark Ignition Distributor Product in early 2003!

DTE was proud to be the first to raise the bar that others followed under and sales were booming!

As DTE grew in size over the years and the company began gaining positive recognition in the Corvette Community with their performance Corvette-specific packages, Corvette IRS drivetrain innovations/products, etc., Phil felt it was time to either shelf the Dynaspark Dist. production for good to make room for other new projects on the horizon or offer to sell the entire product line to another outside company that wanted to take over the reigns where DTE left off. Dynotech Engineering Inc. was just getting far to busy to handle everything on their plate that was going on at the time~ Dynaspark Distributors notwithstanding.

Phil then met with Eric and Zach of Fort Wayne, IN. who was interested in taking over the Dynaspark Distributor product line and a deal was struck in 2006. Phil personally trained both Eric and Zach on how to build these distributors for high performance use in a production-line format, while still maintaining very high build quality through hand-building techniques and mentored them by passing on his engineering knowledge of the product line in it's entirety, the causes for ignition distributor failures with the LTx engine platform, reasons why the unit was designed and engineered like it was, etc., etc., etc. Soon the new owners went into successful business for themselves and dubbed their business name as "Dynaspark", in reflection of the product line.

As of 2006, DTE sold the entire product line and rights Eric & Zach at Dynaspark.net, www.dynaspark.net for which they continue to build very high quality, performance LTx ignition distributors as DTE previously did before them and the Dynaspark Distributor will still remain as the industry's first, major re-designing of the GM Opti-Spark ignition distributor.

Dynaspark- First aftermarket design of it's type in the industry and build quality second to none!"


That's about it, they are still producing product as far as we're aware and you folks now know what we know.

 

Good history lesson on the Dynaspark. I'd like to buy one but apparantly, there are none to buy.

I contacted Eric Harris of Dynaspark and was uncomfortable with the order procedure. He claims they moved to a new location, have no phone line and wants to call me on his "personal" cell phone to take my credit card number, just to put me on the waiting list to buy the product that he claims is on backorder "from our distributor."

So it sounds to me like he's not even making the product, but having someone else make them for him. I suspect we will see a decline in the quality that pushed Dynaspark to be recognized as the best Opti one could buy.

I'm so spooked by this that I've decided to go MSD for my Opti replacement.

Billy

 

Have to agree with your logic here, no matter how good the Dynaspark may be, you must feel comfortable with the communication and support. Sad that the current owners are diminishing the reputation of a quality product by failing to provide those essential elements.

 

Okay know that i am confused what to buy and where Dyspark jumps ship to. I e-mailed them and they said poduction will not start again to middle May. What else can i buy?