Buick Str8 ignition Q:

Anybody have any ideas or information on how this was accomplished?
HEI in a straight eight.
Wondering which distributor is used and what modifications are necessary.

 

Man this stuff falls to the back pretty fast.
Nobody has seen this before?

 

Any 8 cylinder G.M HEI that rotates the right way-cut off and grafted to the Buick distributor shaft. Of course there's some machine work onthe housing to insure that all fits in the block.

 

That's where I was headed.
I have one that was done for a Nailhead.
I guess I'll just pull one and start measuring.

 

I've heard Pontiacs are REAL close, so look there too. I haven't done it myself yet, but when I was talking to an MSD guru about igniting my S-8, he said it'd be easy to adapt their Pontiac distributor to fit it.

I assume the HEI is similarly simple...

~Scotch~

 

Thanks Scotch, that's a place to start. I even have a couple laying around.

 

Bfh?

 

I can do ya one up if needed. I would just need your old Buick unit for the drive gear and measurement, have tons of hei cores for a donor...

 

FS Ignitions is building me one for my 2.5 AMC 4 banger, using there dizzy made for Model A s with a S/State pick up and coil. Gets rid of all the sensors and Fuel injection. Goin in my 29 Rod Pk Up

 

Why not just put an electronic setup in the S8 distributor? Petronix or similar.