Advanced Ditributors report

[Moseso]

I have seen Advanced Distributors and it's proprietor, Jeff, praised hereabouts. This not the first place I heard about him -- I believe I had his web page bookmarked before I discovered TBCF. The address given on the web site is about 20 miles from my home, so I always figured I'd just drive down there and drop off my distributor, when the time was right.

That was yesterday. To anyone living ANYWHERE near close enough to do that, I highly recommend the trip. The world famous Advanced Distributors is located in a suburban Minnesota attached 2-car garage, which also contains his MG Magnette. An MGB race car project sits on the driveway, out front. Jeff, a pleasant young man, welcomed me and threw my distro right onto the Sunn analyzer. We determined that this was a unit well worth rebuilding -- and quickly settled to what level it should be done. I handed him my (guitar repair) business card to throw into the box of distro parts, to identify it. Unlike me, he doesn't have repair tags with handy tear-off claim checks. "Hardly anyone comes to see the place," he said. The guitar repair card alerted him to my "craftsman - member of some kind of brotherhood" status. That got us about another half-hour of talking about this and that.

An altogether pleasant experience with a guy who clearly knows his niche in car craft. Highly recommended...

 

[TR4]

Thanks for this report. I will plan to send Jeff my distributor next winter as part of the never ending improvements to the 4.

 

[RobT]

Yes, indeed -- Jeff is "da man" when it comes to distributors. He rebuilt the dizzy on my Lotus recently with fairly miraculous results.

Rob.

 

[MGTF1250Dave]

Aloha,

Although I haven't met Jeff in person, we have exchanged several e-mails when he rebuilt my distributor. He always promptly responded to my questions and did an excellent job for me. Craftsman is a word the describes him. I'm sure it was a pleasure to visit his shop.

 

[tdskip]

Jeff is great - I highly recommend him and his work!

 

[Brosky]

I'm about to clean up one of his works of art to get it ready to go into my new engine along with a newly chromed clamping plate for a little bling.

 

[2wrench]

I'm thinking to do this, but think I'll wait till
next year. I don't want to throw too many things into
the mix. Bad enough (or good enough) to completely
rebuild the engine and tranny, upgrading the tranny
to an overdrive.

Don't want to sit around waiting for the thing, although,
at my pace, it would probably be back before I really
needed it.

 

[Telly]

Aloha,

I'm sure it was a pleasure to visit his shop.

Dave,
I hope to visit Jeff's shop in the near future because I am also close but I would much rather visit your shop.......it has been a very long winter! Just got the six out of storage today!

 

[poolboy]

As Far as the wait, from a Rural Post Office in Mississippi to Jeff and back...8 days!
Dollar for dollar (and not that much) the best money I've spent.

 

[tomshobby]

When I built my engine last year I included Jeff's magic to my dizzy. My thinking was that the dizzy is what tied all my other work together to get the most out of it.
My barber lives across the street. While I was at his shop getting my hair cut today he kept asking how my car has been running. I would answer that it has been running pretty good and he just kept asking. Just so he understood I spun the tires for a ways up the street when I left. I didn't get on it hard, just enough to make the point.
Now I am thinking maybe it was not a bad thing I had Jeff do my dizzy.

 

[poolboy]

Go ahead Tom!! Look at that ol' Dude.