Morris Minor Owners Club

I have an MG midget with the 1500 engine and it has a Lucas 45d dizzy with early lumenition optical ignition, can i use this in an A series engine .

Sorry -no idea about the mounting on the 1500 engine - but there's a 'good chance' it will be fine. Try it!

I will give it a go and see if it works whats the worst that could happen...

It will be pretty obvious when you hold the two units side by side if the drive arrangement and block clamping arrangement are identical.. I think they will be - a 45 D is a 45 D. But I don't KNOW for sure, so I can't tell you to barge ahead without checking! Are both cars same polarity?

Both units look identical, and both cars are negative earth, the only difference is the lumenition optical set up but thats just a few wires, i did wonder about the advance as all engines the 45d fits may have some differing set up.

I rather doubt they will have different advance curves - I assume Accu/Power will have settled on a 'universal' curve to suit all (or none ). But your old dizzy curve will be hopeless anyway with modern fuels...... Not ideal of course - if you want your dizzy set up correctly you need to contact A C Dodd who is a wizard at that!!

I have seen the name A C Dodd pop up on the mini forums quite alot, not sure where he is located but i will do some resreach on google

Just out of interest I fitted this to an older MGB 25 years ago . At the time I thought it was brilliant .

As i have most of the week off i will be playing about trying to see what fits and can be used, I have a box of dizzy bits i need to sort and nice to know the MGB worked well Big jim.

olderisbetter wrote:I have seen the name A C Dodd pop up on the mini forums quite alot, not sure where he is located but i will do some resreach on google

He's posting on here now

Liammonty, thanks i will keep a look out.