A lot of drag cars have carburators ... are you going to run one of those? Didn't think so.

Just because someone has a certain setup doesn't mean you should too.

 

you do not know true ignition beauty until youve set up an MSD Digital 6+

 

that is what i am ordering.

digital 6 (built in 2 step
HVC coil
MSD cap
NGK wires

 

Wait till you get your hands on the accuracy of a crank triggered distributorless ignition.

yummy.

 

I have that already. Stock.

Whoopsie

 

owned

on our LT1s you cant completely gut the distributor. a coil pack conversion still requires the distributor for optical signals. and guess where the distributor is located.... behind the water pump and harmonic balancer! yay!

 

So there's no belt driven accessories on your car? Otherwise you just weld a trigger plate to the crank pulley and use a hall effect sensor.

Or am I missing something?

 

yea thats what it would be in a normal sequential system. the LT1 was destined to be fucked from the factory. in an LT1 the pcm knows the position of the camshaft because of a low resolution pulse from the optispark (distributor) if you just use a crank trigger, the PCM only receives about half of the information needed to fire the injectors and spark plugs properly. theres an assload of people working to get around the optispark but i dont think there is an in-the-box package to replace it. you can eliminate the shitty part of the optispark (high voltage side) by doing the coil pack conversion. however the pcm still needs the opti to make correct decisions. the opti is one of the weakest links on LT1s, if you get it wet, get ready for a tear down. its not cheap either, retail its around $450 wholesale its still around $200 and you get to tear the fucker down to the timing cover.

 

Gotcha.

Seems kinda silly to go through all that work with the ignition and not just go full standalone though

 

no you dont. you have CAM ANGLE SENSOR or cas. feeds off the timing chain which has slack and tension changes.