Electronic Distributor for 202 red

[Nelsonian]

Any ideas on where to obtain a reasonably priced unit with coil in Sydney?

[bee utey]

Ebay search: 2 minutes and this:
HOLDEN 6 CYLINDER ELECTRONIC DIZZY - eBay, Other, Car Parts, Accessories, Cars, Bikes, Boats. (end time 10-Sep-10 20:54:39 AEST)
Probably more available around the country, they are easy to post.

[Bigbjorn]

A good trick is to get a Jaycar kit and use your existing points distributor to trigger the electronic unit. If you wire it smartly,all you have to do when the electronics **** themselves is to change over a couple of wires and keep running on straight Kettering ignition. It is called failsafing.

[Nelsonian]

Just had an electronic dizzy fitted. The difference is unreal. Very smooth power. I had to get a rebuilt bosche. I am very happy with the difference.

[Doctor W]

I just went to a wrecker and got one.......a complete dizzy from any early Commodore with the red motor, or blue motor will be fine. Make sure you get the special coil with it too - they're a special coil, no ballast resistor and some internal differences resulting in making 60,000-80,000 volts........now you can get the matching wide gap ( .060" ) spark plugs.

It's a simple job to remove the old one and put in the new one using the standard method for R/R a dizzy, lining up TDC etc. Swap in the coil and new plugs and you get an amazing diffrence from a really good smooth idle all the way up the rev range to get better power and torque especially.....not huge gains on paper maybe, but by seat of the pants, fantastic benefits.

Take the time to thoroughly grease and lube the shaft and mechanical centrifigual advance mechanisms as they will definitely need it after all this time.

Mine cost only $50 for dizzy and coil and I bought new Bosch cap and rotor and I also got a set of 8mm leads ( which you need for the different dizzy cap top lead connectors ) and new spark plugs to handle the 4-5 greater voltage gain.

[bee utey]

I just went to a wrecker and got one.......a complete dizzy from any early Commodore with the red motor, or blue motor will be fine. Make sure you get the special coil with it too - they're a special coil, no ballast resistor and some internal differences resulting in making 60,000-80,000 volts........now you can get the matching wide gap ( .060" ) spark plugs.

It's a simple job to remove the old one and put in the new one using the standard method for R/R a dizzy, lining up TDC etc. Swap in the coil and new plugs and you get an amazing diffrence from a really good smooth idle all the way up the rev range to get better power and torque especially.....not huge gains on paper maybe, but by seat of the pants, fantastic benefits.

Take the time to thoroughly grease and lube the shaft and mechanical centrifigual advance mechanisms as they will definitely need it after all this time.

Mine cost only $50 for dizzy and coil and I bought new Bosch cap and rotor and I also got a set of 8mm leads ( which you need for the different dizzy cap top lead connectors ) and new spark plugs to handle the 4-5 greater voltage gain.

One small job that's worth doing before you fit another dissy is to replace the nylon drive gear on the shaft. You can use one salvaged off an oil pump, it's steel and lasts forever.

[rofosixone]

when i had my holdenised swb series 3 ,one of the best things i ever did was put a elec dizzy off a blue 202 motor (vc or wb one )and yes also put alloy timeing gear and put it on the end of the dizzy as well ,that std factory plastic is rubbish use to strip them.at that time there was a holden wrecker at blaxland ( lower blue mountains ) not far from penrith way who specilized in wb holdens ect ,he had heaps of them dizzys and was cheap . if you need his ad it was 17 attunga rd blaxland or 02 4739 2132 .as said its been a while so ring to make certain if hes still there , but he had em and there was no need to search elsewere .as for that dizzy ,you do get extra power but only trouble i had was the dizzy use to move causeing my timeing to move /now was it because i had a hotted up motor (it use to rev hard) puting presure on the nut and hook on the end of shaft not certain but i had to resort to superglue it /that worked some what and yes like locktight it can be undone.also i had coil issues (std one didnt last ) ended up useing a usa brand called eichelin (did i spell it right)that brand of coil did last .also remember being holden can get parts anywere almost ?.only weakness of dizzy was that small plastic pipe that sticks out were the vacum advance rubber hose was connected too - its fragile , break that your in big xxxx.
ps red 202 didnt have electronic ,had points /after 20,000km points are gone on av - did 200,000km on electronic with no probs untill springs got weak inside causeing timeing to move or wander a bit /minor details .

[landrover dave]

I just went to a wrecker and got one.......a complete dizzy from any early Commodore with the red motor, or blue motor will be fine. Make sure you get the special coil with it too - they're a special coil, no ballast resistor and some internal differences resulting in making 60,000-80,000 volts........now you can get the matching wide gap ( .060" ) spark plugs.

It's a simple job to remove the old one and put in the new one using the standard method for R/R a dizzy, lining up TDC etc. Swap in the coil and new plugs and you get an amazing diffrence from a really good smooth idle all the way up the rev range to get better power and torque especially.....not huge gains on paper maybe, but by seat of the pants, fantastic benefits.

Take the time to thoroughly grease and lube the shaft and mechanical centrifigual advance mechanisms as they will definitely need it after all this time.

Mine cost only $50 for dizzy and coil and I bought new Bosch cap and rotor and I also got a set of 8mm leads ( which you need for the different dizzy cap top lead connectors ) and new spark plugs to handle the 4-5 greater voltage gain.

You can tell the difference between a points coil and an electronic coil by looking down the hole where the coil lead goes, points coil has a slotted screw an electronic has a phillips screw. Yes it is that simple!!!!!!!

[navigation2000]

G'day everyone,

Glad to see these threads appear.

* Note that when sourcing a Bosch electronic dizzy, the little stickers on the vacuum advance modules are usually coloured, for example, a blue 6 degrees sticker, tells you at a glance that the advance module shaft, diaphragm, and related parts, are calibrated to throw at certain times, thus getting the right dizzy isn't just as simple as sourcing one and chucking it in.

I know some people like tinkering with these things, but personally I find it to be a hassle.

My answer to finer tuning of the vacuum advance mechanism involved sourcing a suitable fish tank air bleed valve, which I installed inline with the manifold vacuum source(intake manifold) and vacuum advance module.

I think it cost me the best part of $2.75.

Simply cut the vaccum advance line and insert the air bleed valve.

All you do then is close off the air bleed valve until it's about 3/4 shut, then test drive it, and if the advance feels restricted, open the valve a tad. Keep doing this until you reach a point where you can feel the responsiveness falling away, then knock the valve back a smidge and leave it.

I should add that I've done quite a bit more than that to my ignition, so playing with these things isn't something I'm unfamiliar with.

I added a Crane Cams HI6 CDI and a PS91 coil atop of my Bosch electronic dizzy.

To that I added a 4.7uF plasma ignition system, with hand built custom made spark plugs and hand made leads etc, utilising microwave oven blocking diodes and all the rest of it.

Then I threw on a water/methanol injection system, just to give it a bit more oomph.

My 202 is basically stock standard, but fitted with Wildcat extractors and a Redline intake manifold which has a water heater welded to the plenum.

Atop that is a 34ADM Weber carb.

Electronic ignition should be the very first modification considered when looking to improve your Holden 6, or any other engine for that matter.

[Doctor W]

One small job that's worth doing before you fit another dissy is to replace the nylon drive gear on the shaft. You can use one salvaged off an oil pump, it's steel and lasts forever.

That's a really good idea......I have seen them stripped and thus resulting in a no-go situation.