009 over a vacuum dizzy WHY

[ots03]

I was just looking at the clasifieds and I see tons of originals vacuum advance distributors at very reasonable prices.....
So
Why people sells them and buy chinese 009 ?

[Glenn]

Because they are foolish.

Because they think a new $50 Chinese distributor is cheaper than rebuilding their original distributor.
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[SkrapMetal]

I think you'll get a bunch of different opinions on this, but here are the reasons I think people do it...

Laziness. Someone may not want to fiddle around with getting new parts for it, buying a timing light, dwell meter, or sending it off to have it professionally rebuilt when they can just buy a "one size fits all" distributor.

Lack of knowledge. Have you ever read those ads of all the super things an oo9 can do? They make it sound like you need it, and that you're missing out on a performance gain if you don't have one. They go on to say how their electronic points eliminate the hassle of ever adjusting points again. Empi finds a sucker everyday.

"Mechanic said it would be fine" I hear that one alot. Brainless mechanics who don't know one distributor from another and talk the owner into putting one on, then you see their old one in the classifieds, which probably just needs a set of points and a good cleaning.
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[EverettB]

[dubkrzy]

[keifernet]

[craigman]

when i put in a 009 i noticed an instant increase in hp.
maybe my stock dizzy was shot, i don't know. But the 009 made a big difference.

[EverettB]

[krusher]

[vwracerdave]

[Dale M.]

I love my 009's..... Of course I have older Weber carbs with NO VACUUM ports... It's sort of a no brainer to have full centrifugal dist.... Try to stay away from Chinese "stuff' though....

And no, I don't what to try and mod carbs and possibly ruin them....

Dale
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[Glenn]

[craigman]

[Dale M.]

[krusher]

[neil68]

[mark tucker]

for some one that cant set up a vac dist properly that is the way to go.but in most cases it will bennifit from being taylord to the engine also.I dont use vac because it dosent do what I want it to do when I want it to +all those unsightly lines,kinda like crows feet on your old lady,wish they wernt there.no need for them.but for the die hard orignal got to have,well they dont know what there missing. oops I for got they usuly dont have any power either so it probly wont help as much as it would on a 2332 or 2 carbed moters.(4bbl) I hope I havent offended any one.orignal has it's place.I have a restored 27 ford roadster in my garage.(race car with all kinds of crap restored on top of it.)

[DarthWeber]

Just full of Love and Christian Fellowship isn't he.

[MinamiKotaro]

We always used 009s. No flat spots or any other trouble out of them. Dad had a GM HEI distributor on his 2110 for a while. He put a 009 on it just to see what would happen and the engine had more power.

I put a Pertronix in my 009 and it worked like a dream for years, until I went MegaSquirt and EDIS. Dad's running the Pertronix 009 now on his 2386.

We've got a couple of 010s and an 050 laying around, but all our cars are going distributorless before long.
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[miniman82]

I was just going to ask why people bother with distributors at all, then I saw your post and remembered Glenn also lives here.
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