hei conversion????

all right i did search but there is a bunch of info keeping from the knowledge i seek. i swear i saw some info about using a v8 hei distributor on an of v6. i have access to a dizzy off either a chevy or buick v8. but now cannot find find the needed info. if it was there in the first place. i may have just imagined the post i thought i could find.

thanks in advance

 

that's what i was afraid of. i was most likely just dreaming.

 

It's pretty easy to do, really. There is a really good writeup here:
http://cjoffroad.com/writeup.asp?WU_ID=21&noAdd=1

 

Seems to me that since an odd fire is a v8 with the front 2 cylinders cut off you could use the v8 HEI and just run the two extra spark plug wires to dumby plugs.

It seems like I've seen this somewhere. Two spark plugs screwed into and aluminum block with the plug wires attached.

 

Early 70's Buick 231 O.F. had HEI I pulled one from a 74 Apollo. But, haven't tried installing yet. I was told they are interchangable though.

 

I either had the same dream, or read the same article. If memory serves, they were saying the distributor base is the same. The difference was just the cap

 

In regards to Warloc's mention of difference in advance curve,i recently found a very good article by a tuner from the corvette club. "google distributor vacuum advance" and look for "corvette club.org.also follows with extensive specs on many GM point type as well as hei dist. vacuum controls.

mike s.

 

The cap is different but also the the shaft is different. The reluctor wheel inside the distributor has 8 points for the V-8 to fire the 8 cylinders and the spacing is different than the 6 cylinder because of the degrees of crank rotation between firings just like Warloch mentioned. You could change the cap and reluctor wheel out but by that time you're just about in a whole distributor anyway.

 

Only the aluminum housing is the same.

 

You can actually use the coil pick up, the wiring, and the module too, but that's about it.

 

and the dust cover.