DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Hello Merv, I understand your commitment to originality and the nicely restored BR18. I've had a few distributors restored myself, it's not a cheap undertaking but it's good to know that should someone, knowledgeable in these matters, peer into your engine compartment, he will be happy to find that all is present and correct in the distributor department.

Nobody ever looks in my engine compartment. I open the lid sometimes when I think there's a chance somebody might be interested... but they never are.

Also I found even newly restored distributors can be questionable and can be the cause of timing light marks jumping around on the crank pulley.

So over the years I've become a little less interested in originality and a bit more interested in how the car drives... how it starts, how it idles and how it takes off. I've only had this 123 dizzy fitted for a few months but it has improved all of the above. And it's very happy on 6 volts.

It is quite shiny, but if you don't look at it you can't really tell.

Cheers,

Mike.

POR68 wrote:I have looked at the 123 (sorry I don't know your name), and it seems a terrific development. I have a perfectly rebuilt Bosch BR18 and I am not keen to get rid of that originality at this time. I really only want take the fallible condenser (those now available) about of the equation after two bad experiences. I am also not keen on moving to a 12v system, as that again would be a move away from what is a very original car.

I have a 6v 022 in my 356 and a 12v 123 in my 912. I can't say that I notice much difference. Buy a good condenser and keep one i the car? They are very cheap.

How do you know a good condenser when you see one ?

mycar wrote:How do you know a good condenser when you see one ?

Buy from an expert who has a good supplier (like PRS)?

or use this machine

I suspect that there are few 'good' condensers made any more Neil. I have a couple of NoS Bosch ones in my travel kit, but now they represent no value to Bosch or Lucas and their manufacture is farmed out and is poor to say the least. Certainly cheap and last about 6-12 months. I have tested about 20 of them and pulled others apart after failure. Very poor construction. That was the reason for my search to eliminate that component.

Mike, the distributor I have now is pretty much spot on and the car starts and runs very well indeed. I will give the Gammtronix a trial and also a potted, solid state capacitor at some stage. Fred Winterburn's CD unit looks the 'ducks' for those who want a really well thought-out system for 6 or 12 v.