Les Rose wrote:
Those who have followed my posts will no doubt have sussed out that I'm
building a 998 for my Frogeye. Has anyone worked out how to fit an A+ Metro
distributor into a pre-A+ block? I have the different drive shaft and forked
retainer, which Vizard in his book says I need, but he says nothing about
what to do with them (being the polite soul that he is). The original dizzy
suffers points bounce at anything over 6,000.



Would you really risk the A series over 6000 RPM for very long? Well!!!!

Converting Hitachi distributors for use in BMC A and B series may help
out if you can't fit the A+

http://members.tripod.com/%7Emini_digest/dizzy.htm

There are heaps of stuff on the other pages as well.

http://www.planet.eon.net/~chichm/tech.htm

This may help!!!!

rm

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Les Rose wrote:
Those who have followed my posts will no doubt have sussed out that I'm
building a 998 for my Frogeye. Has anyone worked out how to fit an A+
Metro
distributor into a pre-A+ block? I have the different drive shaft and
forked
retainer, which Vizard in his book says I need, but he says nothing
about
what to do with them (being the polite soul that he is). The original
dizzy
suffers points bounce at anything over 6,000.



Would you really risk the A series over 6000 RPM for very long? Well!!!!

Converting Hitachi distributors for use in BMC A and B series may help
out if you can't fit the A+

http://members.tripod.com/%7Emini_digest/dizzy.htm

There are heaps of stuff on the other pages as well.

http://www.planet.eon.net/~chichm/tech.htm

This may help!!!!

rm


Thanks for your useful links. I'm a lot more confident about the rpm
capability of the A-series than you are. Racing units regularly go to 8,500
or more.

On 19 Jul 2003 ops wrote:

Les Rose wrote:
... The original dizzy suffers points bounce at anything over 6,000.

Would you really risk the A series over 6000 RPM for very long? Well!!!!

Yes it it's*properly set up, particularly the smaller engines.
But you can fit contactless ignition such as Lumenition or the
Pertronics Ignitor (marketed by Aldon over here).

Richard

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rm


Thanks for your useful links. I'm a lot more confident about the rpm
capability of the A-series than you are. Racing units regularly go to
8,500
or more.




A series engines don't last long over 6000 rpm