alternative engines, WARPED

[Todd....!!]

You ARE lucky man!

As for the diff 'tween the two dist's, the single point is shorter AND
the larger diameter areas are too big to fit into the block hole!

The original distributor that was in the t-bird has NO internals except
the shaft and rotor, that IT, the shaft is in two peices, it is held
together by two screws which is made so that you can index the rotor so
the the tip of the rotor is phased correctly with the cap so as to
reduce cross sparking, such as is one of the probs with the mopar
electronic distributor, the rotor is a tad outa phase from the magnetic
pickup so that when you put full advance with the vac advance
mechanism(56 degrees!) there is sometimes a cross sparkin prob...)

ANYHOO, will try and get a duraspark unit from the yard instead of makin
my own from scratch outa two or three different brand distributors  like
Dr. Frankenstein!! It just ain't worth it....

Thanks for your insight in this matter, I know no Ford people as
friends, MOST of em are intimidated due to my loud exhaust and BIG
lookin engine n all...  So they kinda avoid the beast... However, I DID
find a new place where a LOT of newer stangs and firebirds n all hang
out, there were at least two stangs with s-trim superchargers at a
parkin lot in Deer Park on Center Street, one of the dudes was pretty
old but he DID have his $hit together and was pusin 17 lbs of boost on
an o-ringed s.b. Ford 5.0!

He even showed me his time slip!  He was in the 11's with like a 1.7x 60
ft time!

COOL?

LATER!

Todd....!!


Pete Boggini wrote:
> 
> Todd....!! said:
> >
> >Well, did ya'll know that all s.b. 302 Fords are NOT created equally?
> >
> >The single point distributor out of an old EARLY 70's LTD behemoth
> >didin't fit into the 83 t-birds 5.0 distibutor hole!
> >
> >The first large diamter area of the single point distributor with an
> >o-ring on it is too big in diameter for the hole and will not fit unless
> >I turn the diameter down a bit...
> >
> 
>   Huh?  Let's see, I've had a 289 that I stuck a later model duraspark
> in and it worked fine.  More recently I had an '87 5.0 that I had
> the same duraspark distributor in and it worked fine.  Its got the
> TFI distributor in it now since its EFI, but I don't remember there
> being differences like that.
> 
>   Was that possibly a 351W distributor?  They are longer, or so I've
> been told, but they may be wider too.  I will admit that I didn't
> try and stick the single point distributor in the 5.0, well, I tossed
> that distributor so I can't check now.:-).
> 
>   Of course, I was also told that since the TFI distributor, with its
> longer shaft, would require modifications to get it to fit with my
> Motorsport oil pump shaft, but it fit fine.  I've since heard there
> are two shafts, and I must have the shorter one.  But, it worked with
> the duraspark distributor.
> 
>   Boy do I feel lucky...:-).
> 
> peterb
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