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On 11 Feb 2005 at 9:35, Mysterious J wrote: > I am going to be using an older carbureted Type 3 distributor with a > vacuum advance on it when I rebuild the motor, just because in my > experience with other street cars, vacuum advance distributors are a > little more driveable. It's a little unfair to make a blanket statement like this. While my personal preference is for a mech adv dist, it's also clear that this leaves out part of the picture when determining the advance. The best advance would have to be sensitive to both engine load and rpm. The later cars came with dists which did both, and they give good performance AND economy. Any distributor which pays attention to only one of these parameters is giving up something, and that's a compromise. And even if you have both, there are still compromises being made, but they are smaller. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~