Crank Sensor

Kit, I appreciate the offer of the chip, the help and the knowledge, truly much appreciated, but the main thing I'm after is to use electrical parts that could be found on a Saturday morning in Dead Dog Arizona if the need arose. That means no mail order aftermarket spark boxes, injection systems or one off custom stuff. I keep a spare fuel pump and a known good PCM in the tool box, the rest of the stuff is readily available just about anywhere.

The factory left pretty much zero wiggle room in the timing curve for variables, such as no EGR for instance. On the low compression, well worn '82 360, a couple degrees one way or the other caused problems, a tad too slow and it was doggier that usual, 3-4 degrees above spec noticeably helped performance, but it rattled horribly at cruise. Rattled a little anyway on spec if the ambient temps were high.

I screwed up on the new motor by not physically checking the deck height before I ordered the pistons, the decks are a tad short. At the time I was shooting for 9.0 on the compression with a different cam, with the given that it would be a premium fuel engine. The actual ratio came in at 9.3 and the shorter cam I decided on of course raised the dynamic a little.

All things considered, it's either a carb and flooding when wheeling, or keep the TBI and build a custom distributor. The custom parts in the dizzy being non-wear items such as the shafts, looks like that's the best option.