Which route should I go

Ok Lorenzo, here's where you can hook up the vacume for the tranny. Look at where the screwdirvers are. As far as an injection for water or alky go to the top of before black and then go to Rich's post and go to his web site. He has a DIY alky info for you.

And yes the later CC systems don't have the same ESC modual so you'd have to use a puter of some sort. Someone on the board had an MSD 6A for sale a few weeks ago and I think it was about $100 so you might do some searching in the for sale section. All you'd have to do is add the BTM modual and a rev limiter and get the replacement for the ignition modual. Cheaper than getting it all in one and if something goes wrong it's cheaper to fix.

Depending on which actuator you have. Is a 1 or 2 port? If it's a 1 port no. You hook it up to the presure side of the turbo. Have you looked at Rich's site yet? Lots of good info and you need to go through it.

The knock sensor will have nothing to do with the MSD box, it only works with the stock system retard box. They may have an option from MSD so go to their site and see.

Depending on how old the BTM is. If I remember they used to have a dial unit and you could just click to get the amount of retard you needed. You will need the MSD ignition modual, MSD box, MSD BTM add on. I fyou want a rev limiter you can use the 6A instead of the 6AL and add that as well. The 6A is cheaper but the 6AL has the rev limiter in it already. The rev limiter uses the chips.

Yes, you can do quite a bit but please start your own thread.:smile: Not trying to spank you. Do some searches in the before black section and ask questions. That's how we've gotten Lorenzo going collectively.

Ok, Lorenzo, once again, have you read Rich's website or done some searches on it yet?
beforeblack.com
He has the vac diagrams and how to hook up the actuator, some MSD info, ect. Rich has done a great deal of research and has been nice enough to post it for anyone to read. I think it will answer most of your questions. Are you talking about the one on the end or on the side BTW?

http://www.msdpower.com/download/5462.pdf
These are the directions to use it but there is one minor problem. You need to put a remote coil on it. The easy soluting is to get a coil from a 75-77 Vega and the cap is off a 75 6 cyl truck. Look at the diagram on page 4 and I think it will answer your questions and you may have saved me some headaches as well.

In a manner of speaking it is. The mod for the distributor is one I've done before on my old road car. I had a problem with the coil overheating and dying so I needed a better and cooler coil. The first 4 and inline 6 cylinder engines that had HEI had a remotely mounted coil so the caps had tips for 5 or 7 wires. You can also use the MSD(?) cap adapter. It takes the place of the coil so you can use a remotely mounted coil. By doing this you can run the MSD BTM and just hook it in through the wires as per directions. Not a bad idea and I'm thinking about trying to use it in my 83.
On a different note I'm waiting to see how well your car runs.:biggrin: I hope you SMOKE the tires off of it. Glad to hear you got the pipe installed FINALLY!!LOL Just yankin your chain. :biggrin: