Hi all,
For speaking in original 'distributors' terms, I feel that I need to add some " counterweight " in this thread. Not for starting again a discussion that has already taken place, but to testify that originality can and should have a place, especially on this nice forum.
My car, a late 101 Giulietta Ti, is stored in my garage for 3 years unfortunately, waiting for a needed 'cosmetic' body repair.
I have driven that car, on regular base, winter and summer, for more than 15.000 km over a timespan of several years now, with the original Marelli S71b distributor.
Except of two 'ten minutes jobs' of cleaning the contact points in the car after a longer time of inactivity ( just scraping of the oxidation layer on the points with a small putty knife), the engine started and runned always perfectly, wathever traject I made. ( short or long trips, snow trips, climbing mountains, classic circuit race ...)
Why would I change my classic car with a non authentic modern electronic device, when it is in fact running so well and is a demonstration of how good, reliable and most of all 'ingenious' the existing systems were yet in the sixties? And yes, 3 years ago we already had the modern fuel composition on the gas stations.
I'm not going to contest that there are of course all kind of advantages with these modern devices, that's not the point, but I'm only trying to make a plea for preserving the more than 50 years old technics from disappearing.
How many people would enthusiastically say " WAUW" when finding out that an Alfa 2500 6C has a computerised distributor under the bonnet ? Even when it was camouflaged ? ... at least I would not .
Just a thought, my thought ...
Rgds,
Thierry