Follow up on my formula and dist gear.
07-04-2004, 12:23 AM
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Follow up on my formula and dist gear.
I posted a while ago about my formula eating a dist gear. Summary: car just stops running one night, I later found out the bronze dist gear was chewed threw. 
I have a retro fitted Gen 2 LT intake on it which I believed to have been modified wrong to acomadate a dist so I try a diff gear (melonized) starting chewing it.
..I decide to put a TPI intake I have on to see if makes a diff. Put a new gear on the dist and now it shows little more than discoloration from meshing with the cam gear.
BTW
I put the TPI on just as a test for the dist gear so kinda rushed and have a few vacuum leaks. I am impressed by the increase in low end torq, you can really feel it off the line. I would recomend a TPI system to anyone who is running a 350 and does not rev over 5000, with a little work the tpi can easly handle 350 hp but more torq than you can get with a carb syste given the same set up. Add tpi and o/d to a vette and you should have a very fun driver.
I have a retro fitted Gen 2 LT intake on it which I believed to have been modified wrong to acomadate a dist so I try a diff gear (melonized) starting chewing it. ..I decide to put a TPI intake I have on to see if makes a diff. Put a new gear on the dist and now it shows little more than discoloration from meshing with the cam gear.
BTW
I put the TPI on just as a test for the dist gear so kinda rushed and have a few vacuum leaks. I am impressed by the increase in low end torq, you can really feel it off the line. I would recomend a TPI system to anyone who is running a 350 and does not rev over 5000, with a little work the tpi can easly handle 350 hp but more torq than you can get with a carb syste given the same set up. Add tpi and o/d to a vette and you should have a very fun driver.
