While I'm on a roll here and posting stuff, I wanted to share with all of you something I figured out. I love running the SVDA distributor. It's in every running VW I drive and I wouldn't have it any other way. I also like running the electronic points replacement. The price for both of these things has gone through the roof and I can't believe it as compared to what it used to cost over 10 years ago. What I do is get the SVDA dizzy and the accufire points replacement. Thye accufire I think is like the EMPI/Bupack chinese stuff that is cheaper but doesn't always fit the best, etc. That's exactly the problem. The accufire won't sit low enough in the distributor to make everything fit correctly. Oh it'll fit in there alright but after you get the magnetic trigger disc installed, and then the rotor, the cap won't sit down all the way. What I did is found an old rusted up junk stock dizzy and pulled the center shaft out and put it in my lathe. You could probably stick! it in a 1/2 drill or tap threads inside and thread in a bolt so that you could stick it in a drill that is clamped in a vise and make a DIY homespun lathe. Anyway, you put the rotor on the end of the shaft and trim off about 3/16" of an inch. Then the rotor will sit down all the way on the shaft, the cap will fit, and you're up an running on a 30 to 40 dollar electronic ignition that is not supposed to work in this distributor. Just keep spare rotors with ya with the bottom trimmed off. I repaired an alternator by soldering in a carbon brush from an electrolux vacuum cleaner motor so it's whatever it takes to get the job done. :) The parts don't care how they are used - it's up to you to make it all work. :)
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