Re: parts for Lotus

[leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)]

Eddie Berin writes:
> This rotor, by the way, has some type of spring-load device that
> governs maximum revs (?).  It is marked 3500 RPM, implying that 
> it shorts out the high-tension (preventing overrev), but the 
> RPM figure sounds low to me.  Will someone please explain what this
> really does?

It probably is a rev-limiting rotor.  The distributor turns at half the 
speed of the crankshaft, so 3500 distributor rpm is 7000 crankshaft rpm.

Bob Leger