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Does anyone have any personal experience with these Distributors? Good or bad.

http://www.richporter.ca/ there web site is not very helpful.

My stock distributor has a bearing going bad. I have a 135,000 miles on the car.
Was looking for some thing other than stock. New OEM is about $300 dollars.

King Motorsports carries them.
http://www.kingmotorsports.com/category.aspx?cat=103

OH_1fstgsr

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Has anyone heard of these?
Come on Canadian brethren they are from Canada. Someone must be using these.
I can’t tell if this is good news or bad news that no one has any kind of experience with these distributors.

00Red_SiR

They are good, they're based out of Montreal I believe. I'm using one of their distributors now on my car with no issues at all.

OH_1fstgsr

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How many kilometers(miles) on it? And which one, High Performance or Replacement?

00Red_SiR

about 2 years or 20,000 kms on it and I got the high performance one.

dester223

They are good distributors. They use new components. But as with every electrical part that we have used, I see failures from time to time.

Overall, their failure rate is VERY low. I think we've had 3 distributors go "bad" over the last 4 years.

1) the shaft seal started to leak. Changed with an OEM honda seal = no more problems
2) one distributor on a OBD1 ZC engine started making the car run weird. I got a new one warrantied and no more issues
3) I don't think it's a major problem, but on a couple OBD1 honda distributors, the 2 wire plug rubber inside the clip is a little fat, so you have to take the one from your old distributor and move it over, otherwise it's almost impossible to clip the distributor clip on.

OH_1fstgsr

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Why did you got this route over OEM?
Nearly $600 or $300 OEM.

Thanks for the information. Exactly what I was looking for.

00Red_SiR

I got mine quite a bit cheaper than the $600 as I use to own a local performance shop and was able to source one for less through some old business contacts I had.

OH_1fstgsr

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That makes sense.
Thanks for all your help. I will order an OEM on Monday. It should make it another 100,000 on my car.

vw1

Hey, finally someone has asked about these distributors. Most people don't know I guess. Any way, I bought one for a 71 vw. Had piontless ignition and ball bearing, bearings. Worked like a champ, primo, excellent! 127.00 at bap geon auto parts. cheap price. O.K. also bought one for a 97 chevy 4.3 with a bad gear, worked like new, checker wanted 203.00 jeez! got on on amazon for 80.00 These look and feel like good solid units.

honda_lx

Thanks for the website link.

I wish I would have found this before I bought mine from the local O'reilly's. could have saved 50 bucks :/