It's been close to 20 years since any car/truck engine has been produced with a carburetor and/or a distributor without computerized timing controls. I'm wondering if some of these late model, sometimes low-mileage engines that are clogging up the salvage yards might be reverse-engineered for carburetion and a centrifugal/vacuum advance distributor? It would be relatively simple to adapt the crankshaft hub on most engines for a Gilmer belt system (toothed timing belt) and bracket a conventional distributor onto the front of the engine where a power steering pump or air conditioner compressor would normally mount. Follow up with a tunable carburetion system like Webers or something similar with replaceable venturis and a wide range of jets available, and it seems it would be possible to come up with a completely non-computerized version of a modern-day engine grafted into a stovebolt truck. A 300-something horsepower twin overhead cam V6 with a 7K RPM redline in an AD truck- - - -wouldn't that be a head-turner at the local show and shine event? How about a Toyota Supra turbocharged inline six with a 5 speed overdrive transmission behind it, and no computer controls?
Jerry
