engine and drivetrain E30 318 Motor-Distributor Question

[Bavman25]

Been searching the forum and have not been able to find the specific info so here goes. I am planning to use a 1985 318 engine and 5 spd in my 2000Tilux, I will be running a weber 38Dgas, wondering if I can just switch the dist gear from the e30 dist onto a Tii dist....or swap the guts into the e30 dist to run Petronix. I read here where someone used an Electramotive HPV1 which I guess could be an option but I already have a Tii dist.

 

Any ideas would be great.

 

Thanks

 

Al Taylor

[Mike87]

The cam in the 318 engine is designed for fuel injection. Since you are running a carb, change the cam to one from a 2002 carb engine and run the tii distributor without mods.

 

In all honesty, you should really run a vacuum advance distributor with that carb/engine combination for best performance.

[AceAndrew]

Al,  seems like you're aware that the distributor and cam gear spin backwards.  While you can physically change out the gear on the distributor to spin correctly in your application it would still not function. 

 

In all honesty you're not going to notice the difference between a properly functioning tii mech. advance distributor and a vacum advance distributor regardless of internet buffoonery.