Wow, I never meant to say that Mallory had a better distributor than what Mr. Langdon can produce. I just think that the more choices for parts that we have to choose from for the older inlines the better it would be to help keep them alive. I call this 'support for the inline sixes'.
It would just be another option not only for now but also for the future.
I agree with you that Mr. Langdon is a very talented and super nice guy, and a hole lot better to deal with than just about anybody else in this industry. And his involvement with the inline sixes is the best thing that could ever happen for us. But what would future Inliners do if Mr. Langdon were to ever stop producing his HEI's? (which I hope does not happens)
I didn't want it to sound like I wanted people to buy from Mallory, it's just that they actually produced the distributor then scraped it, which I thought was sad because I would like to see anybody help in the support of making any of the parts for the older inline sixes.
And I also agree with you Dave when you say that a magazine article does not make a product good or bad, but I do give some credit to the article's ending when they stated that it had made a big improvement over the stock distributor. (The HEI, and the Pertronix setup is also a big improvement). But I am confused when you questioned, "what their agenda is". (?)
(Waldo)- The adjustable advance is adjusted using the vacuum to a diaphragm connected to the dristributor and is it used to enhance street drivability at different rpm ranges. And the GM engineers also built it into the inline sixes even before the V6's.
I think the wheel is being re-invented every day, and to stop trying would be to give up, and I for one hope that never happens.
And I hope Steve was just kidding about his "opinion". (that's scary)
Ed
