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 VintagVW > http://homepage.mac.com/stokester/VintageVW/ Dub~Tunes > http://homepage.mac.com/stokester/dub_tunes 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. > > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
