I got one way back...late 90s. Not a small cap style at all. Don't know where it was made...either China or maybe Brazil or elsewhere in South America. A friend believes it was from Germany as parts of the box are printed in English and German. The distributor itself is not marked anywhere as to country of origin and that's why I suspect other than China. The fellow thinking Germany could be right. Coil in cap, not really a copy of the S-10 design. In my opinion it is a modified copy of the HEI made for the 230/250 and I believe it uses GM parts or copies of them. Can be adapted to the 235 (which is what I did with the one I got using the original 235 distributor mount scheme). You need to shorten the shaft where it connects with the oil pump a bit and grind off the 230/250 mounting flange to let it drop into the block further. Good vacuum advance, unit works well enough, is larger than I would prefer but the size isn't unmanageable. Two things: the plug connections are "outies" instead of "innies" so you can use the original type plug wires and mine is lacking some sort of oil seal. But it did in fact make a doggone hot spark and it didn't have any notable operating problems other than the oil leaking. As soon as it cools off here I'll try some o-ring seals and other seals and re-mount it on the 235 and see what happens.
~ Jon 1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
