302 EFI distributor

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by philminotti

David-

You won't be able to have any advance without the Ford EEC connected to it. The distributor outputs a cam sync signal called PIP which the EEC uses to calculate advance. The EEC then sends a signal back to the ignition module called SPOUT which contains the timing advance information.

So to make a long story short, you could get it to work, but with locked out timing only.

phil

Thanks a million,that's what I was afraid of and not what I want (locked timing)......so,now it's back to the drawing board.....
I guess the next best thing to do is use this distributor as a core and get a rebuilt one for an early 80's Mustang GT with a carb.....
any other suggestions other than MSD????? I'm burnt out on them.My car sits for sometimes a month or more and have had corrosion problems all the time, it gets old having to pull the cap off and clean all the contacts and mechanical weights to get it to work right...

David

[philminotti]

Well, you could go full EFI, like i have. It'll provide you with countless hours of frustration and annoyance, until you finally get it perfect. Which you never will quite accomplish. Still though, if you enjoy a challenge, it's fun. That's what i keep telling myself....

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by philminotti

Well, you could go full EFI, like i have. It'll provide you with countless hours of frustration and annoyance, until you finally get it perfect. Which you never will quite accomplish. Still though, if you enjoy a challenge, it's fun. That's what i keep telling myself....

No thank you!!!!!!
I have enough problems in life, I don't need to throw EFI into the mix...I know squat about it or how it works or how to make it work and have no desrie to learn it at my age.....
I'm pretty handy with a timing light and a Holley four barrel carb,screw driver,a few open end wrenches and a good pair of pliers........

A man has to know his limitations and I know mine, and that starts when you have to plug a lap top into the car to tune it......if I can't do it with a timing light/screw driver and a handful of wrenches, I bring it to someone that can,like a dealer...with the new stuff on the cars,about all I can do is an oil change......
I guess it's called "progress"......

BTW: how about the distributors on the 85 to 88 or so models with the throttle body stuff (I meant mass air) on them, think one of those might work?????

David