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On the ignition parts that one finds today that are not AC Delco, say Borg Warner Standard and such any of these parts made in the USA? Are they all made off shore Mexico, China ? How reliable is the foreign products that one finds in the after market? If you buy the AC brand, could you find it in a cheaper part and not pay for the name, if all they do now is let some one make it then put it in there own box. Any one know who is making the ignition parts for Delco now?
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Re: Parts
Kelly -
I'm sure AC-Delco is buying ignition parts from whomever they can find that still makes them (Blue Streak, Filko, Echlin, Standard, etc.) and putting them in an AC-Delco box. AC-Delco hasn't made parts for years. -
Re: Parts
Standard Ignition Products now owns all the traditional ignition replacement part brand names (except Delco)in addition to the "Standard" product line and Blue Streak, and Delco purchases all of their ignition parts - likely from Standard.
That is why all vacuum advance controls, even Delco (unless you happen on a 15 year old NOS part) have the same ID stamped on them, like "B28" for the 8" VAC that is suitable to engines that generate less than 14" idle vacuum.
Standard has plants in the USA and Mexico, and I expect there will be consolodation of manufacturing operations (and more non-domestic manufacturing) following their purchase of Dana Controls from Dana Corp. last year, which included the Echlin, Niehoff, and BWD brands.
Country of origin has little to do with parts quality. It's all about materials. tooling, and process control, and we have to hope that Standard will maintain a reasonable tradoff between cost and quality, but the bottom line is that virtually all the vintage engine ignition parts (which is a relatively small market) you now buy are from the same manufacturing source, regardless of the brand name on the box.
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