Thread: 6 cylinder radio suppressed distributor?

Dunno but it's gotta be worth twenty bucks.

Yep the lightweight ones are worth $$$$ in the UK.

If you burrow into the ad a little more I think you'll find he has a bit of stuff. Tipping you won't get that dizzy for 20 bucks....

Yeah the other adds have more realistic prices…

The six cylinder SIII FFR did have a suppressed Bosch ignition system, so its probably from one of them. But unlike the Brit lightweights and FFRs which had a CAV fully shielded dizzy including leads and shielded spark plugs.

The Bosch dizzy in the FFR was pretty much the same as the Bosch in the GS (civvy SIII had a Lucas dizzy) The actual suppressor in the Bosch dizzy was on the rotor button in the contact track between the centre contact and the tip was a little resistor. It was also a common fault, the resistor would fail and the spark no longer passed to the plug leads. You needed to replace the rotor button or on one field repair of a mates SIII I soldered the gap where the resistor once was.

The suppressed distributors also had shielded dizzy cap, basically it was coated in an aluminum membrane the leads also had metal shrouds over the spark plug connectors.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The six cylinder SIII FFR did have a suppressed Bosch ignition system, so its probably from one of them. But unlike the Brit lightweights and FFRs which had a CAV fully shielded dizzy including leads and shielded spark plugs.

The Bosch dizzy in the FFR was pretty much the same as the Bosch in the GS (civvy SIII had a Lucas dizzy) The actual suppressor in the Bosch dizzy was on the rotor button in the contact track between the centre contact and the tip was a little resistor. It was also a common fault, the resistor would fail and the spark no longer passed to the plug leads. You needed to replace the rotor button or on one field repair of a mates SIII I soldered the gap where the resistor once was.

The suppressed distributors also had shielded dizzy cap, basically it was coated in an aluminum membrane the leads also had metal shrouds over the spark plug connectors.

Thanks for that! And if you take a look he has the CAV ones too… My lightweight used to have one before someone did a 12v conversion on it…