How to wire a tfi distributor in carburated car??

Thanks alot guys,you have been a great help,an the wife will be happy too the 302 with the cfi is getting about 7 mpg right now,probably do the swap on the weekend.Derek.

 

Throw a cheap aluminum 4v intake on there and put a 390 vac Holley...
Just a thought.
Running off the front barrels is way smaller than the 2v carb barrels. Good tip-in performance and mileage. In the end, even running hard on all 4 barrels, the carb is still only slightly larger than the stock 2v. Adjust the secondary spring and you could even make the back come in lazy, making it even more economical...

Just another one of my silly ideas...
Dave

 

Yes, it is possible to wire it up to run, there is a hot wire, a switched power wire and the negative side to the coil, 3 wires, and it will run, wont run good though,,,, needs a computer to operate the timing,,, but,, will run,,,,, Just get ya a stock ford dizzy, with the ign box, dont look back,,, JMHO,, ChadS

 

sounds like a good idea to me that is what i would do

 

There is more that goes on with this distributor in EFI service than you know about.
The PIP signal is very noisey by being located inside with the high voltage distribution.
The TFI (on the outside) has to "clean up" the signal electroniclly before it goes to the computer where timing is computed, added, then sent back to the TFI which then fires the coil at the added timing intervals above the base 10° inital timing.
It is foolish to put all the effort into this for fixed timing. The car will run worse overall than it does now.
Bad fuel mileage is no excuse to do this.
My F150 weighs 5600 lbs with a 281 engine and still gets 14 mpg around town and close to 18 on a trip.
Fix the car as it is. There are no short cuts.

 

I have a `85 econoline van that came from the factory with 302 2 barrel TFI dist and an AOD tranny and everything worked great together .

 

Your 85 also had a distributor with centrifgal weights for advance, plus vacuum advance and a control module.

A later EFI dist. won't work without these attributes.
Did you know that?
See Chiltons book #7768 page 4-50

 

No sir my distributor does not have advance weights or vac. advance . But it does have the same part # as the one on my 5.0 from a `86 tbird , E4ZE-12131-AA . Did you know that ?

 

Derek:
Exactly what distributor does the car have right now?
Why can you not continue to use that one?
Now that I see what you are trying to do, I don't understand why you want to convert the car to anything other than what it has...

 

The main reason i want to convert the car is that it runs like a total p.o.s.I am a pretty negitive guy when it come to older fuel injection systems,it seems once they begin to mess up there is no saving them,i'm a carb man i can rebuild them,tune them just generally a simplier ordeal.The car is a $100 winter beater and i'm not going to spend a pile of cash on a big old load,i figure the distributor won't work properly without the other fuel inj components hooked up,i'll swallow the $100 bucks or so to put the duraspark in i was basically asking how to cut corners,i already have a good 2bbl,a decent electric pump if needed just have to adress the ignition system.Derek P.s the car has the tfi style distributor in it now.