John E Lee Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 The distributor bushes on my 1985 Caterham have seemed to failed. Anyone got any idea where I can get it recon/replaced? Or perhaps just the bushes? I noticed the other week while touring a scrap yard for elusive parts for my Escort Mk2. That the Dizzy for a 1985 Fiesta 1.1 is almost identical to the Caterham part. The part numbers are near identical. Could I use this for spares? Also, The fibre glass wings and nose cose, ( coloured red ) have bleached with age. Is there anyway of restoring the gel-coat. I have considered getting them resprayed, as they are not damaged. Ideas?? Finally, after attending Stoneleigh as a spectator for 8 years. This year, it'll be as a proud owner of a Seven. Whoo hoo!! See you all there... John L. John Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Haighton Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 Aldon Automotive are whizzo on distributors. The build their own modified versions from Lucas bits and supply Caterham with dizzies for x-flow engines. They may be able to help with your Bosch. Aldon are on 01384 572553 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara Swift Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 John, Don't forget that with your seven you will get free entry to the Kit Car Show and free parking on the best stand at the show - in at the main entrance, turn right keep going for a bit and the seven club stand "stands out" on your right! See you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westfield Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 I have just replaced the complete Lucas competition system on my 1700 Xflow (black box failed and I could not afford the replacement cost) with a Bosch system from a Fiesta/Escort with the 1300cc Valencia engine. This is a direct replacement for the Kent engine. T he modification has worked tremendously well and I have noticed a significant improvement in the running of the car (and the fuel consumption !) I obtained 2 distributors (1 for spares) from the scrap yard complete with amplifier packs (part of the distributor) for £5.00 each. I then modified 1 of the distributors to remove the vacuum advance and map the advance curve suit the cam. For mine it was 14 degrees static with the advance starting at 1300 RPM increasing to a maximum advance of 34 degrees at 3700 RPM. The mapping was a bit trial and error and took a couple of hours to do. The initial and maximum advance can be altered by slightly bending the spring posts and bob weight limiters. This is easy to do through a hole in the distributor body conveniently located by Mr. Bosch for this purpose. The wiring was quite simple with just 3 wires from the amplifier connected to the coil and earth. black + positive side of the coil green - negative side of the coil brown to a good earth I went for this set-up for several reasons. Firstly it is dead reliable, secondly parts are easy to get, thirdly it's cheap and fourthly the Bosch distributor is far better engineered than the Lucas one. The car I removed the distributors from had done 75K miles and there was no wear in the spindle at all. The biggest expense was a new distributor cap with side exit leads, this was £10.00. the part number for the distributor cap is: Motorcraft - 5005566 Halfords - HD2 515 intermotor - 45800 Hope this helps Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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