GM buying from Electromotive??

[john spears]

In digest 28 David Doddek speaks of the merits of Electromotive. And while
I'm glad your system is working well, your statements about GM buying direct
fire systems from Electromotive are completely false. All Grand National
direct fire systems from 1984 - 1987 are manufactured by Magnavox, and
consist of a "coil pack" of three coils molded together. GM DIS systems came
online, slowly,  in 1986 on 3.8L SFI engines, other than the Grand National.
The GM DIS system eventually went on to be used on all of GM's DIS equipped
engines, displacing Magnavox.      There was some early on development work
done between the two companies (Electromotive and GM), but nothing ever came
of it.  As the years went by, the only thing Electromotive supplied GM with
was a bunch of pain in the ass, frivolous law suits.  


                 John Spears