Hey everybody, I ordered the dynaspark distributor for my z car today. Hope it is worth the price, a late christmas present to myself, I suppose.

Is it worth the money?

please respond

 

Well, I would say yes and no.
I would have gone with LTCC, but that's a little bit more in depth.
Dynaspark should be a lot more reliable than the standard opticrap, but I don't think it really boosts the performance of the ignition in any way (someone correct me if I'm wrong). But the good thing is you should be able to hook up an ignition box to it without worrying about shortening the life of your opti. I myself got my opti replaced less than 10000 miles ago, so I'm waiting till this one goes out before I have to make that choice. But I would say that the dynaspark is a good buy if your opti is on its last legs. If it was still running strong though I wouldn't worry about it, since there's not really a set mileage that the opti goes bad at, some people have replaced them multiple times and some people have never had problems well over 100k miles. It's too much of a pain to get down there if there's not a problem. Great time to swap in a bigger cam, though.

 

No complaints with mine.

 

I'll probably go with the Dynospark also, I work with guy who put one on a LT1 C4 vette and he loves it. It's been on the car for over a year with no problems. I think the Dynospark's are rebuildable also. Good luck with it and keep us posted.

 

i would buy a dynospark if it was a 100 bucks less or i had a 1oo bucks more in my pocket

 

Hey billy, just curious, but how much are the dynasparks going for now?

 

IMHO, its overpriced. Whats it cost, 549? When you can go to autozone and get a rebuilt one for 100 bucks. IMO, you could have spent the money somewhere else. Sorry.

 

presently 599 plus 10 normal ground shipping is the present price and now they all are red. they said red was so popular they went to all red.

appreciate all the replys.

i have that sporadic missing and cutting out especially between 1500 and 2000 rpm. I have new plugs and wires on and well away from any heat sources and still have that dam miss.

planning to install a new water pump as well, car has about 69000 miles and i am the original owner

 

Yeah, but at Autozone all you get is a rebuilt cap and rotor kit, you don't get the whole opti. Least not the last time I heard.

I'm personally thinking that if you really want a setup that should last for a while, get a dynaspark AND the LTCC conversion. That way you have the coil over plug upgrade with a supposedly ultra reliable opti doing 1/2 the work of a standard setup.

Costs too much though.

 

hope everything goes well I wasnt trying to knock you.

 

Hey Fastbird. Wouldn't that be a big waste of money? Using the LTCC setup and the Dynaspark?

Doesn't the dynaspark use the same optical parts as a stock opti?

 

I was saying at the end that the combination would be too expensive for the whole deal, but think about it.

An opti that's better built and more reliable than the standard opti, then used under the LTCC. The LTCC takes the load off of the opti, and with the dynaspark in there, you would probably have to never worry about replacing it again given that the LTCC is doing the work. It makes sense, just isn't practical unless you have money to burn.

 

Ok, i understand all of that.
What i was asking was, isn't the optical portion of the dynaspark exactly the same as the stock optispark? If so, without figuring the price of the dynaspark, there would be no actual benefit of even using the dynaspark over the opti.
Is this correct, or is the optical portion of the dynaspark better than the stco optisparks?

 

I think I would have to stick with the opti because of the cost. I've had mine on two motors now and it probably has about 20,000 on it. I've known plenty of people who have had it on there cars for 70,000 + and have not even had a hicup out of it. The only real problem with the opti is water and when people go wash crazy in there engine bays. I may buy the upgrade when I see how long they last on a daily driven car and not just in a test area. I guess what i'm trying to say is keep us posted on how it works for you I'll use you as the test subject. I've already been the test subject on the alternator relocation bracket and found a big big problem within 500 miles (SNAP) great design but needs one thing small to make it work properly.

 

Actually, I think you're right. I didn't even consider that. I was thinking more along bearing life. You know how the typical opti has been known to grenade at high RPM, while the Dynaspark shouldn't. If you're running both the dynaspark and the LTCC, you've gotta have something going on and turning some serious RPM.