Longevity of OEM distributor?

[someotherguy]

I've heard the UMP distributor is good quality (for whatever that means), I have no experience with them personally though.

I'd guess it's a China shaft/etc. with the UMP cap, rotor, and module? Dunno. The cap, rotor, and wires they offer seem to be good quality.

I think if I were buying parts separately I wouldn't consider their module, but that may be irrational and based strictly on price. I'd pick Delphi or GM and those probably aren't realistically any "better"

The only "US-made" distributors I've noticed recently are Pertronix, and their offerings for this particular application do not claim US-made. My bet would be the China castings are sourced from one maker and sold in bulk to a number of different brand names.

Richard

 

[FullBlowncustoms]

I've heard the UMP distributor is good quality (for whatever that means), I have no experience with them personally though.

Beats me, mine only has about 20 miles on it.

 

[FullBlowncustoms]

I'd guess it's a China shaft/etc. with the UMP cap, rotor, and module? Dunno. The cap, rotor, and wires they offer seem to be good quality.

I think if I were buying parts separately I wouldn't consider their module, but that may be irrational and based strictly on price. I'd pick Delphi or GM and those probably aren't realistically any "better"

The only "US-made" distributors I've noticed recently are Pertronix, and their offerings for this particular application do not claim US-made. My bet would be the China castings are sourced from one maker and sold in bulk to a number of different brand names.

Richard

LOL, when I bought mine I put a GM module in it, put the one it came with in the glovebox.

 

[Caman96]

I contacted these guys, you pay for it then they make it…in U.S supposedly.

Vortec DUI Distributor – Performance Distributors

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[SNCTMPL]

I contacted these guys, you pay for it then they make it…in U.S supposedly.

Vortec DUI Distributor – Performance Distributors

performancedistributors.com

I bought the tbi version of this. Not sure where it’s made, but it seems well built.

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[Caman96]

I bought the tbi version of this. Made in USA.

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Is it installed yet? Are all indications it’s Made In USA?

 

[Schurkey]

I contacted these guys, you pay for it then they make it…in U.S supposedly.

Vortec DUI Distributor – Performance Distributors

performancedistributors.com

Nothing on that web page actually says the country-of-origin. Could be "hand built to order" anywhere on Earth, which would also account for the 6-to-8-week lead time. Or hand-assembled in USA from crates of imported parts.

If it was truly made in USA, I'd expect them to say so.

Call and ask.

I bought the tbi version of this. Made in USA.

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GM Computer Controlled DUI Distributors – Performance Distributors

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[SNCTMPL]

Is it installed yet? Are all indications it’s Made In USA?

It is not installed yet, so I went out to the garage and pulled the boxes for the distributor and coil, nowhere on them does it say Made in USA. I don’t remember why, but I always thought that their stuff was made here. I have used a couple of distributors in the past and never had any issues and always thought it was good quality stuff.

Nothing on that web page actually says the country-of-origin. Could be "hand built to order" anywhere on Earth, which would also account for the 6-to-8-week lead time. Or hand-assembled in USA from crates of imported parts.

If it was truly made in USA, I'd expect them to say so.

Call and ask.


www.performancedistributors.com/product/gm-computer-controlled-distributors/?attribute_pa_gm-fi-distributors=chevrolet-v8-1987-1993-cars-and-1987-1996-trucks-remote-coil&attribute_pa_color-choice=blue

GM Computer Controlled DUI Distributors – Performance Distributors

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I think you are on to something here. This made me search around and see if I could find anything. Best I can tell is they assemble at least the distributors in Tennessee, probably with “globally sourced parts “. I will edit my first post. Maybe I’ll call, and maybe by tomorrow I won’t see the need.

 

[Schurkey]

Maybe I’ll call, and maybe by tomorrow I won’t see the need.

Yeah. There's not much point to calling, I think we all know what the answer will be.

Not that the answer makes much difference, because the Federal Trade Commission which should be monitoring/regulating this, is more of an industry lapdog, than a consumer watchdog.

Wild Guess: The distributor housings for pretty-much all of these distributors are cast and machined in the same Chinese factory. Notice that they've all been cut for O-rings down by the distributor gear even though GM never did that.

I think they're all or nearly-all coming from the same factory, and MAYBE some resellers are putting better modules and caps on them (or maybe they're just putting fancy stickers on the junk modules.)

 

[FullBlowncustoms]

I bought the tbi version of this. Not sure where it’s made, but it seems well built.

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That's Davis unified. Summit racing and Jegs sells them.