The Birth of Distributor Caps A Milestone in Automotive Engineering

... caps -- in fact, carbed euro 308 use two coils and one distributor. ... In the cars with actual distributors the bodies were the same part. While torquey and fuel-efficient diesels have been popular in Europe, the spark-ignition engine has ruled elsewhere. First used by Étienne ... The need is for a new distributor cap. Engine is a 5 cylinder radial; manufactured in 1930 from scratch, Everything except the carburetor is home-made. The cap in question is from a Lucas 35DLM8 distributor which appeared on the SD1 from 1985 onwards. On Range Rovers they appeared in 1987 till ... I checked the coil first but it was (and still is) ok. Next thing (because easy to do) was to remove the distributor cap. I found the little ... The ignition spark from the coil comes into the top of the distributor cap and travels down to the rotating arm, which has a spring loaded metal ... I used Bosch Caps and rotor arms... everything seemed fine until after a long run i started to get a slight misfire at idle and under high load.. ie accelerating ... The HEI system was introduced in late 1974 on some GM cars, and was used across the entire GM product line in 1975. This new ignition had a ... The small Bosch distributor cap will crossfire at about 28,400 Volts. The small Mallory #271 distributor cap, with 20 degrees of vacuum advance, ... If you are new to classic cars, points ignition systems may seem really hard to understand. Here is how points ignition systems work.