attn old daddy slant 6 distributor

[Young Ed]

Any updates to this old thread? From the old thread by Charlie "I was playing around at my buddy's shop yesterday and made up a couple of slant/6-flathead 6 distributors. I took an electronic ignition distributor from a slant/6 and turned the foot to the id of the flathead distributor foot, and cut the drive shaft off inside where the plastic drive gear sits. I then counterbored the shaft with a 5/16" hole. I cut the drive shaft from the flathead distributor to match lengthwise with the cut on the slant shaft. Turned a 5/16 diameter end on it, inserted it into the slant shaft, pinned it, and done. I pinned it using the original nylon slant/6 drive gear, but will change that to the steel flathead collar later. The original flathead distributor hold down will fit the slant/6 distributor body. It should wire up using the standard Mopar electronic ignition parts common to all slant/6 cars and trucks. It will be awhile till I can test it as my engine is a long way from running, but it looks ok to me. Anybody with a running 218/230 who wants to try it out, email me directly."

Edited March 8, 2010 by Young Ed

[thrashingcows]

Wow that sounds like a neat modification/upgrade.

I'd love to see some before and after pics.

[greg g]

Pictures please. Will you be running 12V neg with this set up??? Which set up did you get the old one or the later one? Been told to avoid the one with the lean burn setup.

Did you grab the elec ign coil?

[thrashingcows]

Yes stay away from lean burn dizzies since they require a feed from the carb and vacuum to adjust timing and such. If it's a n electronic MP unit then it would need the electronic ignition box, coil and ballast, and wiring.

Or you could use a points dizzy with a pertronix upgrade as well.

[Olddaddy]

I used the non-lean burn distributor. What I liked about the swap was that the distributors are common, cheap and easily adapted to the flathead drive foot. The slant/6 distributor even uses the original hold down for the flathead distributor. As mentioned before I will replace the plastic drive gear with a steel collar before installing. I'm about as far from a running engine as I was when this first came up, but someday..........if anyone has a running engine and would like to field test a distributor let me know.

[Young Ed]

What does the drive gear do? The flathead has no such gear

[Olddaddy]

It doesn't do anything, it just holds the drive pin in place till I get the proper steel collar for the pin. On the slant/6 they are the drive gear for the distributor and the pin holds them on the distributor shaft. On the flathead it simply keeps the pin in place where the drive shaft is mated to the distributor shaft.

[Young Ed]

If I get my 40 pickup on the road this summer it'd be a perfect test mule for your /6 converted dizzy.

[Don Coatney]

I toyed with the idea of using a furd V-6 distributor as it would be easy to adapt to a flathead. Biggest problem was the size of the distributor. It would not fit in the allowed space.

[BeBop138]

Here is a Chev inline six HEI I use. I have a little more room on my 52 Windsor, works great.............Lee

[james curl]

I did one of those for my 235 Chevy six in my 55 pick up but had too much trouble trying to get advance because the hold downs on the cap hit the fins on my aluminum side plate and I just could not get enough advance to my liking. It worked just fine on the original steel side plate but I wanted to keep the finned side plate. So now I an using a 2.8 Chevy 60 degree V6 distributor that has been converted the same way but doesn't have the coil in the cap and is the same diameter as the original distributor. This is the same distributor that Langdon uses as he thought that I had one of his distributors when he saw my engine at an inliners meeting.