coreybrenner
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Hi all,
Great site... I've read it for about half an hour, and have learned quite a lot in that time already.
I remember dorking around with a few Buicks and Pontiacs (and Caddies, and ...) back in my misspent youth. And now, I'm dorking around putting a Pontiac 350 into an IH Travelall. On the back burner, I'm putting together an EFI system for this, and have decided I want distributorless ignition, too, while I'm at it.
As I recall, the distributor stubs for the 231/350 Buick had the same diameter and shaft depth as the Pontiac motors (though the dizzies spun backwards,) and the shaft diameter was the same. As I recall, it was a simple matter of drilling a hole for the roll pin, or maybe it was a direct swap, to stuff the Pontiac distributor drive gear onto the Buick shaft. As I said, my youth was misspent.
At any rate, I was wondering if the modern-day cam sensor from the 3800 would still drop in place of the dizzy from an old 231, or from a 350 Buick. Since it would not matter which way the distributor turned (no advance weights, no vacuum advance plate... heh...) I'm picturing this being the easiest way to drive the oil pump on the Pontiac motor, and also to have a camshaft position sensor to tie into a computer.
If anyone has one of these he'd be willing to part with cheap, in the interest of furthering backyard science, I'd love to buy one off of you.
I can put in new bushings, and don't really care how good the drive gear or the sensor itself is. Just a reasonably good core with a straight shaft would be a good starting point.
Thanks!
--Corey (Silicon Valley, CA)
Great site... I've read it for about half an hour, and have learned quite a lot in that time already.
I remember dorking around with a few Buicks and Pontiacs (and Caddies, and ...) back in my misspent youth. And now, I'm dorking around putting a Pontiac 350 into an IH Travelall. On the back burner, I'm putting together an EFI system for this, and have decided I want distributorless ignition, too, while I'm at it.
As I recall, the distributor stubs for the 231/350 Buick had the same diameter and shaft depth as the Pontiac motors (though the dizzies spun backwards,) and the shaft diameter was the same. As I recall, it was a simple matter of drilling a hole for the roll pin, or maybe it was a direct swap, to stuff the Pontiac distributor drive gear onto the Buick shaft. As I said, my youth was misspent.
At any rate, I was wondering if the modern-day cam sensor from the 3800 would still drop in place of the dizzy from an old 231, or from a 350 Buick. Since it would not matter which way the distributor turned (no advance weights, no vacuum advance plate... heh...) I'm picturing this being the easiest way to drive the oil pump on the Pontiac motor, and also to have a camshaft position sensor to tie into a computer.
If anyone has one of these he'd be willing to part with cheap, in the interest of furthering backyard science, I'd love to buy one off of you.
I can put in new bushings, and don't really care how good the drive gear or the sensor itself is. Just a reasonably good core with a straight shaft would be a good starting point.
Thanks!
--Corey (Silicon Valley, CA)
