RE: [T3] '70 square tuning

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

I had thought that the 009 became popular because there was a huge surplus
of them so somebody  bought them up cheap and did a fantastic PR routine in
the magazines.

Keith




dists like the 009 became popular: They eliminated the requirement that the 
vacuum advance be matched to the carb by eliminating the vacuum advance and 
replacing it with a pure mech advance.

The later dists with a combination of mech and vac advances were a solid 
improvement over the pure mech advance, but the 009 had already built a 
following. I don't really know anything about this, but I SUSPECT that early

German 009s were much better than the current Brazilian ones, and that may
be 
part of the reason that the reputation has changed so drastically.

-- 
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI USA

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