Chinese eBay electronic pickup distributor

[81sunnyson]

Anyone run these or install?  No matchbox only two lead wires from pickup and a rotor. I guess you just find top dead center, stab it in and wire to coil with positive and negative pickup?

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[datzenmike]

This one?

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-4-cyl-Electronic-Distributor-for-Datsun-Nissan-L16-L18-L20B-J15-HS-HIT4/323603629495?hash=item4b584785b7:g:3FEAAOSwc6paC64x:rk:1:pf:0

 

 

It might be EI. I once saw a much later Sentra? from another country and the EI part was somewhat like the 720 which has the module under the cap.

 

 

 

If a points distributor it would only have one wire. So I don't know.

[G-Duax]

I wouldn't try it unless:

1) you make an offer for $35, and he accepts.

or

2), you start a pool for $5 a shot, for people to guess how many days it will last before failing, and the winner splits the money with you.

 

Oh, and if you do, carry a genuine one with you, it will save you the cost of a tow truck ride.

Edited January 7, 2019 by G-Duax

[datzenmike]

To put in perspective Nissan wants $416 for a '79 620 EI matchbox distributor in 2004 dollars.

[81sunnyson]

Like that. Has a module under rotor. Has gear for camshaft

[81sunnyson]

Has a pic on a series with carb as well as a pic with a frontier tbi(?)

[datzenmike]

Right,  A series with the gear. Price is right.

[G-Duax]

2 hours ago, datzenmike said:

To put in perspective Nissan wants $416 for a '79 620 EI matchbox distributor in 2004 dollars.

 

So buy a half dozen of them, and swap them out as they fail.

Believe me, after what I've been through with chinese alternators, and PowerMaster alternators, made in the USA (Bull Shit), anything related to electricity & china should be avoided at all cost.

I think the crap is worse then English John Lucas Elect6ronics (John Lucas, Prince of darkness).

[sick620]

I would like to bump this to see if anyone has ever ran one with good or bad results? 

[banzai510(hainz)]

there was a guy on here but dissapeard one he got it running.

 

I think its more a point conversion with new distributor (like a Pertronix or HOTSPARK than a true EI distributor so I would BE CAREFUL if running a EI coil and No ballast resisitor.

 

also The dist timing plate might not fit all the L motors some one said it works with the L20 dist pedastal. So you will have to find TDC and make the plate work or modify to make sure the dist points to number 1 when installing

 

L16 dist pedastal or offset different and farther in

 

I would buy one to try but I have som maybe distributrs to last another 50 years

[afracer]

They don't come with any instructions or labeling and the cap is not a oem unit, so whenever it wears out I have no idea what to replace the cap, and possibly rotor with.

[ToastyBass]

I snagged one of these, thinking to myself: "Man, it's pretty cheap! It would be good preventative maintenance to try it out!"

 

That sucker never sent a signal to my transistor ignition unit ('75 KB210 Cali). I had the leads hooked to the junction block, coil-to-cap wire resting on my strut tower, and spun it by hand as I watched for spark. Nothing. Set up the original the exact same way, works perfectly.

 

I'm not 100% sure why the Chinese one doesn't work, I've been too busy with the rest of the car to think about it. At first I thought it could be the air gap between the pickup and reluctor ring.

Edited September 29, 2023 by ToastyBass

[datzenmike]

 

 

If hand held you have to have a ground wire!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Try reversing the two wires from the coil inside the distributor. Something about a rising or falling wave form.

 

 

 

If this fails get a GM HEI module as they just need the trigger pulse. Again if no luck reverse the wires to the W and G terminals. HEI module MUST be well grounded.