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Gram · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject: Used distributor for 924

In NZ the only used distributor I can find will cost me NZ300 (US150-odd).
Anyone else bought one and paid this much?
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morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 9102 Location: Romania

i got one for 50EUR but that was a bargain cuz everywhere i went they kept asking prices around 600 EUR...fuel or spark distributor cost the same around here(new ~700 EUR) good luck...because of the spark distributor my car sat in the garage for 4 months

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gohim · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 4459 Location: Rialto, CA

Up here you can get one yourself from one of the self-service salvage yards for $25-$30.

Shipping would be ugly, but I could probably get you one the next time I go to Pick a Part.

The biggest challenge would be figuring out which distributor you need. There were three different ones used here in the States, and if you count the ones with points that were used in European models that makes at least four types, and I have no idea of when the Euro cars were switched to breakerless.

On another note, $150 might not be that bad if you have one of the breakerless distributors. The module that goes into the late model distributors costs $75-$100, for the replacement module (plus machine shop labor to service. replace the module) in the distributor when it fails. I have or have had several cars that use similar modules designed and manufactured by BOSCH, and they all died at around 100K miles.

Ozzie · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 7:13 am Post subject:

I got one from the UK I won on ebay.
About $70 inc freight.
Check this guy out. tell Darran I sent you.
http://www.porsche-9xx-parts.co.uk/
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Gram · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:16 am Post subject:

Thanks guys. Gohim, my distr. is marked:
Z44
0 237 002 054
477 905 206

How does that compare with US ones?
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Neil924 · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 4225 Location: Canada

Ozzie · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:41 am Post subject:

He knows me as Ozzie or Jaynar as well.
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Its AUTO and its BLACK
Montego Black on black/red
Engineer of Electro/Mechanical Systems Maintenance