Thanks John,

I purchased a CompuFire unit with an SVDA distro a number of years  
ago from Aircooled.net as well as a disc brake conversion kit.

Both are performing admirably in a '74 standard daily driver my  
daughter depends on for work.

Thanks for the heads up and first-class customer support.


Nick
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On 14 Feb, 2008, at 11:52, John Connolly, Aircooled.Net wrote:

> List,
>
> We have been selling the Compufire units for six or seven years.  
> About six
> months ago, Compufire went bankrupt and was acquired by new owners.  
> I won't
> bore the list with the extensive details, but the new owners are  
> effectively
> Larry, Moe, and Curly, and have no clue on what they are doing.  
> Apparently
> they thought it would be cool to own a new business, and are really  
> learning
> as they go. Maybe they'll have a clue couple years, but right now  
> they are
> morons.
>
> We had so many issues with defects and them not knowing what they  
> sent out
> in what they received, that we finally wrote off the company and  
> resumed
> carrying Pertronix, which we carried until around seven years ago.
> Ironically, we stopped carrying Pertronix van because the Compufire  
> quality
> control was better, LOL.
>
> I cannot in good conscience sit here quietly and let people think  
> they are
> getting a decent product with Compufire (now), when this is so far  
> from the
> truth it's stupid. The most recent fiasco with Compufire was that they
> installed the little magnets in the rotor wheel upside down, so the  
> units
> could not function. So you go to the headache of installing the  
> Compufire,
> only to have it not work and wonder what else you broke. And if you  
> try to
> contact Compufire to get a new magnet wheel, you get Larry, Moe, or  
> Curly on
> the phone and you're tearing your hair out. They do not care about  
> your
> situation, and they are to get your money.  This is their attitude,  
> which is
> why we dropped them like a hot rock
>
> Unless you are a glutton for punishment, at this point Pertronix is  
> the only
> decent unit on the market which we can recommend.  I strongly  
> discourage the
> use of Compufire, or any of the other Chinese manufactured copies  
> of these
> points replacement devices. One of the main advantages of Pertronix  
> is that
> many of their units are available in six Volt versions, which we do  
> stock.
>
> John
> Aircooled.Net Inc.
>
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