| | They make one for the small Alfas. I wonder if it could be adapted to
the Loop distributor?
Who's gonna order one and try it?
GF
On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Jay Williams wrote:
| | Going to digress a bit from bikes and talk about cars for a moment,
but its relevant to the current discussion.
I've ben fooling around with old cars even longer than with bikes. I
used to be a big fan of points, for all the usual reasons. (Simple,
tried and true, I don't need no mysterious voodoo electronics to
complicate things, etc.) I always bought high quality points and kept
them clean and gapped to spec. The points set ups always seemed to
work well for me, and I saw zero reason to change.
Then, a good friend with a car quite similar to mine practically
insisted I try the new set-up he'd installed in his car, a little
gizmo that fit under the distributor cap and replaced the points
called a Pertronix Ignitor.
To make a long story short, despite fresh, correctly gapped points in
my distributor, installing his Pertronix system with NO other changes
made a noticable difference. Not in power particularly,'though it
certainly didn't hurt in that regard, but the engine idled smoother,
started easier and was noticably more crisp through the rev range. I
took his Pertronix out, reinstalled and gapped the points and the
difference was patently obvious. I ordered my own unit and have been
using it ever since. Ultimately I discovered that mileage had improved
slightly. (Not that a '69 Cougar with a healthy 351 is a car for those
particularly concerned about gas mileage.)
Anyhow, This isn't a commercial for Pertronix, that just happens to be
the points to electronic conversion I'm familiar with. And I'm
certainly not endorsing whatever Harper's is selling. The Pertronix
unit for a V8 engine cost about 1/5th of what Harper's is asking for
their unit for a two-cylinder bike, which does seem a little out of
whack. The point I'm trying to make is that the car ran and drove JUST
FINE with the points. The electronic ignition still made a positive
difference.
Yes, I keep a set of points in the glove box, "just in case". But
haven't needed them yet in over ten years. Its all a matter of
personal preference, of course, but I'm another that will be curious
to see how Allan's experiment works out.
Jay Williams
From: jason telford <jr-@avalon.net>
Reply-To: Loopfram-@topica.com
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: harpers electronic ignition
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 17:20:48 +0000
Oh, come on now. In the grand scheme of things, $300 isn't all that
much and if it makes life easier in the long run, then go for it.
Personally, I don't mind points. They seem to work fine for my needs,
but I don't particularly enjoy setting them. I'm going to stick with
them for now, but I am real curious how this experiment of Allan's
turns
out.
Cheers,
Jason
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