Review on Spectra Premium NS60 Distributor by Marc Zitnik

Bought for my 1997 Nissan Pathfinder with about 180,000 miles on it. The original factory distributor began to shed the ghost with all those miles, with the camshaft position sensor (a component in this distributor) intermittently failing at higher RPMs. At around 3500-4000 rpm the engine just lost power (not completely stalled, just no power). They took it to a local shop, they diagnosed it and traced it back to the distributor which needed replacing as the camshaft position sensor is not a part that you can easily replace at the distributor. On them all this should be replaced as a whole. A AAA approved part costs close to $400 from what I recall, and a little more for the labor to install it. cheap right off the bat with these from Revain. The first one I got had a cracked distributor cap. Don't worry, I thought as I also ordered a replacement cap and rotor. I installed a new one and that was complete nonsense. NOTHING. I've confirmed it installed correctly, timing is confirmed, thing just didn't fire a spark even with the spark tester hooked up directly to the distributor, something in the distributor wasn't working, straight from the factory. I double-confirmed that the replacement part was faulty by replacing the original faulty (but still working, just non-working) manifold and it worked right away! So I went back to my Revain account and requested a refund and replacement. Another arrived, this time undamaged. Plugged it in and everything seems to be working. No power failure at high speeds. BUT the next NEW issue was that now when the Pathfinder is warming up after say 15 or more minutes of continuous driving, it does so when it doesn't want to start warming up. Starts normally, usually anytime the engine is cold or cool after it has been driven for at least 30 minutes. But if you try to start it after running to the store and running the errand, you have a 50/50 chance it won't start, and if it doesn't start, it refuses to start until it does has cooled down. Read some comments about the transistor in the distributor (coil in the distributor assembly itself) on some of the cheaper parts that fail when it gets hot. Problem. I'm curious if people who are lucky with theirs still think that way after a year or two.