I've modded a few of the 45D Chinese dizzies by welding the advance stop and filing it back to have a 4.0mm gap. This gives 9-10 dizzy degrees advance range , = 18-20° at crank. Max advance with the stock springs is usually around 3500-4000 RPM.
Set full advance to 30-32° with a dial back timing light.
I've used in 998 1098 and 1275. With 266 and RE13 cams. They run great.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

This is good advice. I've posted about this before regarding the 'Rucas' Chinese distributors.
The advance curves are very wrong an could damage your engine.
I have a distributor graphing machine and have corrected quite a number of these.

A module that uses a typical 3 ohm coil is simply a 'points replacement' type of module, offering little advantage over a set of well maintained points.
My preference is for an electronic module that features variable dwell. These can be identified by using a coil under 1.5 ohms,typically 0.8 or 0.9 and actually take advantage of what a true 'high energy' electronic ignition can do..

Are the parts in these chinese distributers interchangeable with Lucas distributors, li,e the baseplates, vacuum units weights, etc?

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Cheers Dave.

hi, the cap and rotor button are the only two items that are interchangeable. cheers Lindsay

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I've put a Lucas vac advance can on one, but it may not fit in all cases.

It probably depends on which manufacturer but generally it seems no. On the Chinese one I have (which is rubbish) the screws are not ba and have the JIS dot but even a JIS driver did not fit well.

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Too many minis

Ok , thanks.
I may still get one and see whats what.

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Cheers Dave.

I had to machine the body of one down recently, their supplied cap didn't fit on properly.
Neither did a Lucas one.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

They are actually pretty good once you check them over and modofy the advance curve.

I had one a while back which had the magnetic pickup you push down over the points cam. One of the 4 triggers was not equally spaced from the others so it always fired one cylinder a few degrees differently to the other 3