[AT] conventional or electronic ignition

[Phil Auten]

The "odd fire" Buick V6 is easily identified. The distributor has a 
V8 cap with two empty holes.
The reason for this is that the engineers at GM just took a Buick 330 
V8 and "cut off" two cylinders.
The distributor, crank and cam were redesigned about 1978 for "even 
fire" operation and these parts
are not interchangeable between odd fire and even fire engines. 
Anybody want a '76 Buick Skylark
(looks like a Chevy Nova) 4-door sedan? Got one in the carport with 
the odd fire V6/auto. It can be
had cheap.

Phil

At 05:06 PM 6/12/2006, you wrote:
>Steve's got a great point; an HEI would be a better way to go. You can
>get parts for them (like modules) and have some spares in the vehicle
>(can you tell I like having spare parts?)
>     You might want to be careful of the Buick one though, because
>some or all were (I think!) odd-fire engines. And I think that also
>applies to the 4.3 V-6 Chevy engine. I seem to recall that they had
>slightly different spaces between the towers; that might help identify
>the odd-fire from the even-fire ones.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Ken in  AZ