Can someone point me in the direction of the build thread where the fd had a 2nd gen. water pump housing and he was running a distributor with FI? I have searched, but I apparently suck at getting the right words.


Thanks
Shannon

 

93 e85 Finally Running ( 1 2)
jmirage04 that would be me

 

question:

why?

 

lol

 

I found it interesting and simplistic? Beautiful car jm.

 

Ever find out how much timing you're running on that setup?

 

the FD trigger system is more simplistic and reliable.

distributors have slop and many more components that wear and fail.

i suppose many people just have different thought processes, some people think carburetors are simple while others think they are archaic inefficient bricks.

i'm with brick, generally speaking most technology keeps moving forward and not backward. distributors and carburetors are in the past, not the future.

 

One of the biggest problems with a conventional (fully mechanical) distributor is that it cannot provide a precise timing advance curve compared to electronic spark advance. It is dependent on crude mechanical things like centrifugal weights and diaphragms.

 

Amen...

 

is true 100%

 

I agree with carbs and distributors being old age technology, but I think that Jm's build is pretty awesome. This is this first fd I have ever seen run a distributor and it seems that he has it up and running. I didn't know that you could just swap it off a 12a and would actually work perfectly.

 

perfectly depends on your perspective, you'll never get your advance curve anywhere near as well adjusted as even the stock ECU could control it. sorry, the word perfect just got to me.

the CAS/distributor drive gear also drives the OMP, so it's just a matter of swapping the front cover and water pump. you could technically also use the FC's CAS for timing as well, but it's also sloppy compared to the trigger wheel that the FD uses.

 

I guess perfect wasn't the right word to use. I agree. Now that we are on the factor of omp, wasn't the first and second gens considered more reliable?

 

the mechanical pumps rarely failed, well never as far as i know, but they did leak oil all the time.

 

Hey greenday 5606 thanks for the complements. I knew this would raise some eyebrows with some people. The reason I went with this set up is because its what I had on my first gen before I crashed it and it worked great. The parts were all there and I didn't have to spend extra money on a fuel/ignition computer. I know the other way is better but I am happy with what I got and it works great for me.