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Re: wow, that made a difference



I can second Bradley's comments.  Installing a new
distributor and electronic ignition made a noticable
difference in the power and driveability of my spider.
 Also the best "maintenance" I have performed in
years.

Cheers,
Ian Lomax
71 Spider, 205k miles and climbing

--- bradley artigue <brad_artigue@domain.elided> wrote:
> 82 Spider Veloce.  As of yesterday it resides in
> California (arrived by 
> truck from my old house in Atlanta)...
> 
> I had no idea just how bad my old distributor was
> until I replaced it 
> tonight with a new unit.  I had discovered some
> minor play in the old one 
> about 4 months ago (the only time I had ever
> inspected it), then 2 weeks ago 
> the distributor more or less fell apart while
> changing the rotor.
> 
> OK, so new distributor = HUGE difference in
> performance.  The car is much 
> more responsive and idles very smooth.
> 
> Note to self:  replace distributor every 100,000 or
> so miles!
> 
>
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