Ian Pearson
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| posted on 21/10/02 at 11:35 AM |
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Pinto Distributor
I have an unmodified 2.0 Pinto with Twin 40's. I gather that I need a non vacuum distributor. Aldon & Bosch do them, but at a price! Anyone out there
have any advice on cheaper sorces/alternatives? Also, will the standard coil work, and will I need a ballast resistor?
Many thanks, Ian.
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Stu16v
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| posted on 21/10/02 at 04:52 PM |
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For road use, IMO you would be better off using the vacuum advance if at all possible. The car will run a lot sweeter on part throttle, and give
better mpg. The reason that 'tuned' motors dont fit them is that at very high rpm the movable base plate in the dizzy 'chatters' and causes the
ignition timing to vary considerably.
Its not major hassle to connect it up, just a case of finding some small diameter metal pipe, and drilling through one of the manifold intake tubes so
it is a tight fit and glue it in with araldite. Join this to the dizzy with some standard vac hose and job done!
HTH Stu.
Dont just build it.....make it!
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B@man
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| posted on 22/10/02 at 04:40 PM |
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If you only tap the vacuum off one cylinder and you are using twin 40's I think you will get timing errors as the inlet pulses operate the vac
advance every time the inlet valve on that cyl opens ? at high revs this may be ok, but I would imagine it would be a bit erratic at idle.
The last pinto I did just had the standard bosch dizzy with the vac capulse removed and the base plates bolted together, The 2L made nearly 125 BHP so
it can't have been that bad a solution !
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Robin Hood S7 - Deceased !
SSC Stylus 16v - Sold
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Ian Pearson
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 posted on 23/10/02 at 06:24 PM |
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Dizzy
Thanks for the advice guys!
Ian
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