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Well, I'll have to wait to call TPI gauges now... I got motivated and yanked the firewall out, to make more clearance for the HEI distributor cap. As it was, there was NO WAY to get the distributor cap off, without removing the firewall (bad planning, I know...) so while it's out, I'm gonna cut some more room out of the firewall, so if I ever need to, I can change the cap and rotor without going through all this again.
Does anyone know if an HEI distributor, with the coil mounted in the top of the cap, can be converted to a regular cap and rotor, and remote mounted coil?
Thanks !!

Originally Posted by 26Tudor

Well, I'll have to wait to call TPI gauges now... I got motivated and yanked the firewall out, to make more clearance for the HEI distributor cap. As it was, there was NO WAY to get the distributor cap off, without removing the firewall (bad planning, I know...) so while it's out, I'm gonna cut some more room out of the firewall, so if I ever need to, I can change the cap and rotor without going through all this again.
Does anyone know if an HEI distributor, with the coil mounted in the top of the cap, can be converted to a regular cap and rotor, and remote mounted coil?
Thanks !!

I think MSD sells a conversion kit to run the plain cap with an external coil...??? OOps!! Just checked the Summit site, Mallory and Taylor both make the cap, didn't see one from MSD...

Thank You, Dave, off to the Summit site I go.....
<adit> okay, I'm back.
I guess I should have mentioned that the engine is a Chevy V-6, 4.3 roller lifter motor, I do not know the year, or what it came out of.
I was looking at the remote coil setups, just in case the extra firewall clearance doesn't allow me to get the cap off, as it was, there was NO WAY to get the dang thing off.
Thanks for the help, Dave, as John Palmer can tell you, my field of expertise is NOT American cars... I have been a VW guy since the late 60's, and this is my first real foray into the cast iron engines.

Originally Posted by 26Tudor

Thank You, Dave, off to the Summit site I go.....
<adit> okay, I'm back.
I guess I should have mentioned that the engine is a Chevy V-6, 4.3 roller lifter motor, I do not know the year, or what it came out of.
I was looking at the remote coil setups, just in case the extra firewall clearance doesn't allow me to get the cap off, as it was, there was NO WAY to get the dang thing off.
Thanks for the help, Dave, as John Palmer can tell you, my field of expertise is NOT American cars... I have been a VW guy since the late 60's, and this is my first real foray into the cast iron engines.

OK Dave, Your car is looking GOOD. But how many exhaust ports are on a V6 Chevy? Looks like a few too many tubes on those Lakester headers, lol.

I drove my roadster, pulling Troy's tear drop trailer to The March Meet this weekend. Won a "Best of the 30's" car show plaque. The best part was "I did not freeze to death" going over the Grapevine and the car made it home.

Yeah, one pipe on each side is a dummy, the guy that had the engine in his 31 A Coupe actually glued 2 extra terminals on the HEI cap, and had dummy plug wires running down to... nowhere... he was trying to make it look like a (small) V-8, I guess, but as soon as you hear it start and run, you know it's not a V-8, so...