R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Looking to replace my old points style distributor with an electronic unit. Prices on trade me range from $150 for a china dizzy with built in coil up to nearly $1500 for almost visually the same item with a reputable name brand. Anyone had any experience with these china dizzys ? They look pretty but are they any good ? Will be installed into a Ford 289 with mildcam and 4 barrel carb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwibirdman Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Depends, some times you get lucky............. www.summitracing.com is your friend. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Looking to replace my old points style distributor with an electronic unit. Prices on trade me range from $150 for a china dizzy with built in coil up to nearly $1500 for almost visually the same item with a reputable name brand. Anyone had any experience with these china dizzys ? They look pretty but are they any good ? Will be installed into a Ford 289 with mildcam and 4 barrel carb. Pro-comp dizzys? They are absolute pieces of shit and I have seen them cause numerous issues with smooth running. But if you are putting them into your burnout machine then it will be mostly WOT only and I would say the problem will be negligible in that case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Should be able to get a Malory or MSD entry level dizzy for like $300? Do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 M & H and Afterburner are a couple of the cheapy brands advertised on trade me. Also a local guy in town has brand new distrubutors for $120 that he imports from USA, although thy are made in china. The engine is for a street driven car, not for burnouts so im waning something reliable that works "better" than a points system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Get a Mallory then. Cheapest of the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Should be able to get a Malory or MSD entry level dizzy for like $300? Do that. Im a complete novice to what are good and ok brands to go for. Ive heard MSD Pro Billet is a good option ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 What actually goes wrong with the china stuff ? Do they loose spark, bushes prematurly wear or ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Should be able to get a Malory or MSD entry level dizzy for like $300? Do that. Second hand maybe. I was bidding on a second hand MSD a couple of weeks ago but bidding went crazy and wasnt keen to spend nearly $400 on a second hand dizzy with no warranty. I guess im happy to spend up to $300 for something good. But it seems most stuff on trade me anyway is up around the $650 + mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 What actually goes wrong with the china stuff ? Do they loose spark, bushes prematurly wear or ? Just really bad build quality. The two I have personally had experience with. One had the hole in the trigger ring ovalised for some reason so it was literally just jammed onto the distributor shaft at a 10-20 degree angle and it caused issues with timing being all over the show. The other one had a really notchy advance weight mechanism. The former was unfixable without new parts which I was told couldn't be supplied so I got a refund and the latter was fixable with probably a couple hours of filing and deburring and tidying it up but I thought 2 bad ones = fuck that. So sent it back for a refund too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 In my opinion, get an MSD one - they are really really good quality.Something I would take out of any car I was selling if I ever thought I was getting something with the same motor again, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr.wylde Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Yeah! as these boys have said dont get the chingy wing dizzies. unless you like 50 degrees of advance timing and faulty running. have you considered a pertronix electronic ignition to convert you points dizzy into an electric? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Yeah! as these boys have said dont get the chingy wing dizzies. unless you like 50 degrees of advance timing and faulty running. have you considered a pertronix electronic ignition to convert you points dizzy into an electric? Call me stupid but i just sold my old dizzy to someone today. Got $50 for it minus the cap. So yeah its $50 towards and electronc type. From the responses above i think ill start hunting for an MSD or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 I have something like this on my car and its great. http://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/maa-3755101/overview/make/ford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzstato Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Reason prevails... +1 for the opinion they are crap. Have personally had one which only after ~400km of driving the springs obviously started to stretch, caused the engine to ping when at constant revs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllTorque Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 I have something like this on my car and its great. http://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/maa-3755101/overview/make/ford Wow, so cheap. Why would you Chinese when you can get that at that price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 ive just been through all this my car has an electronic dizzy triggering a MSD streetfire ignition box had factory lucas dizzy which cacked itself fixed it but it died again got the shits with it i have a msd pro billet one but didnt want to use that cause its for my good engine another msd one was going to be heaps and the dollar isnt very good so summit was not much help bought a M+H china 'billet' distributor from segedins for $120 good points= cheap simple lts surprisingly not shit- billet body, ball bearings, the internal advance bits are tig welded bad points= it had too much advance, and there is no adjustment. i had to take it apart and weld up the weights and file them to get it right no vac advance i dont think i would use a ready to run china one, ive heard of a few of those ignition modules failing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 also another option is just use a stock points dizzy to trigger a MSD or similar ignition box. theres no current going through the points so they last forever 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Stock dizzy 99% of the time is flogged out though, brass bushes or/and bearings are 40 years old etc. Honest just buy that Mallory or the equivalent entry level MSD, they have adjustable vacuum advance for decent economy, spring kits to change how quick the advance comes in and adjustable stoppers to change max advance. Don't need a ugly extra box and you can have a tune about as good as you will get with a mechanical device. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Wow, so cheap. Why would you Chinese when you can get that at that price. Got all excited at that price. signed up an account with summit. $200 USD plus shipping converted to NZD comes to $580 plus what ever i might get charged once it arrives here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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