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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:07 AM
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I was just wondering if your Opti was dying, could this be a cheaper alternative than buying another GM one?

MSD Cap and Rotor from Summit
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 11:16 AM
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Its just a cap and rotor, isnt the complete deal. Summit even sells a cap and rotor
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 12:11 PM
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1: don't waste your money on a cap and rotor kit unless you already have a perfectly good opti to throw it on


2: they are not available for sale yet. No date is released. MSD fuged up and pulled them all back for more R and D
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 12:56 PM
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whatever you do: DO NOT buy an Autozone, O'REily, etc opti.... BUY a GM opti... have heard tooo many horror stories of the remanufactured ones you can get through a local parts store.....
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 01:10 PM
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Yeah I bought a NAPA reman out of ignorance 3 years ago and 8K miles later it's throwing a low res code.
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Man I hope mine does not F$%k up I got it from summit at Christmas time and it has been flawless so far. Why did msd pull them. I am running a jaccobs pro street ign kit on it also.
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Old Jul 13, 2005 | 01:55 AM
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summit sells gm opti's so your in no danger
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Old Jul 13, 2005 | 02:39 AM
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My reasoning is that if the Opti failure is due to the cap and rotor, wouldn't it be a cheaper, albeit short-term fix for the problem?

And if I bought a brand new Opti from GM, how long would that one last?
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Originally Posted by Robbie Boyd
My reasoning is that if the Opti failure is due to the cap and rotor, wouldn't it be a cheaper, albeit short-term fix for the problem?

And if I bought a brand new Opti from GM, how long would that one last?
IT should last as long as the one that came originally on the car.... my stock one lasted me about 80K miles.....
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Old Jul 13, 2005 | 05:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 01WS6/tamu
Man I hope mine does not F$%k up I got it from summit at Christmas time and it has been flawless so far. Why did msd pull them. I am running a jaccobs pro street ign kit on it also.
The only thing that ignition will do is burn out plugs and the opti faster than necessary, and as it ages maybe cause reving problems, I speak from direct experiance with Jacobs I wasted several hundred dollars on their crap shortly after I bought my car.
The only time these things need ignition upgrades is on boost or juice and then you want tone with window switches and timing retard and such not that POS.
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