Rebuilt fuel distribuor

Jeremy Cottrell · 11-19-2003, 07:10 AM

Any leads on a good rebuilder of fuel distributors. Pelican shows them NLA, and $1855 for a new one is getting close to the stratosphere. I have found some by Python Injection, but I would rather go with a rubuilder that someone out there has had a positive experiance with. Thanks in advance for any leads.

JTO · 11-19-2003, 07:50 AM

Jeremy,

I have seen rebuilds advertised by Vertex. Look in Excellence or Pano.

Troy

MotoSook · 11-19-2003, 08:16 AM

Jeremy,

I have a fuel distributor from a later SC available.

RickM · RickM's Garage

What year/model?

emcon5 · emcon5's Garage

FD rebuilds came up recently, Imagine Auto does it. There was also a place linked in Noah's fire damaged C3 FD thread a few weeks ago.

Do a search.

Tom

MotoSook · 10:24 AM

Doesn't Imagine farm it out to www.specialtauto.com ?

Edit: A member posted some issues with specialt recently. Something about longer than promised lead time. I don't know if that member got his FD back yet. I would be very specific and aske all the right questions before I send mine out.

vash · vash's Garage

parts heaven has rebuilt units in stock (i think). they quoted me, $440 or 450. you can find them on yahoo search. just type parts heaven, if you need me to drive down and pre-inspect the part before they mail it to you, let me know.

pm me...

CARRERIC · 11-19-2003, 05:36 PM

Jeremey,

Try Fuel Injection Corp.
http://www.fuelinjectioncorp.com

I just got mine back rebuilt for $226. This is the company Vertex used.

Eric

emcon5 · emcon5's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by Souk
Doesn't Imagine farm it out to www.specialtauto.com ?

I don't know, but those guys are in Texas. When the topic originally came up in the Reseda dyno day thread, the board member who had it done said Imagine's guy was in Louisiana.

Noah, maybe I am just used to SF Bay Area labor rates, but I didn't really think the price was out of line, considering they don't just rebuild the distributor, they increase the fuel flow as match the ports as well.

Tom

Sunroof · 11-20-2003, 11:03 AM

Call Stoddard. They will turn you on to a guy who does that for a living and has a great reputation.

Bob 73.5T

ZCAT3 · 11-20-2003, 12:11 PM

Imagine Auto does not farm it out to Special T - it goes to a guy in Louisianna that specializes in CIS fuel heads. I think the rebuild only price is around $300? It is more if you want it modified for better flow as I did with my 930. The turn around time for my fuel head was less than a week.

Superman · 11-20-2003, 04:31 PM

Here's my feeling on rebuilt CIS fuel distributors: There is no such thing. There are FDs that have been cleaned. But the "business" part of a FD is a matched-pair bore and pin. The tolerances between these are so tight that gasoline, under 60 psi, does not leak through. There is no o-ring, and the pin must move freely. What're they gonna do? Re-machine that matched pair? I don't think even NASA could do that. So, I guess I'd work on cleaning it well to see if that frees the pin, or opens the clogged passages. If that does not fix it, find a good used one and clean it. Or pay $300 for a "rebuilt" (clean) one.

Berryman's Chem-Dip. That's the stuff.

Jeremy Cottrell · 11-20-2003, 05:40 PM

Thank you all for the replys. I think we will try the cleaning route first, and I have a lead on a good used unit if that fails. Has anyone had any experiance with the Python units, good or bad. I assume they are Bosch units that they "recondition"