TPI to Carb, What Distributor
 

I am pulling the motor out of my 90 Camaro Iroc, 350 TPI, and putting it into my 79 El Camino. I am going to remove the TPI system and put on a 2104 Edelbrock Intake and 1406 Edelbrock Carburetor. Leaving the rest of the motor alone.

My question is what distributor do i need to use?

Do you have the '79 distributor? If so, it will be fine. If not, something like it.

Re: TPI to Carb, What Distributor
 

would he need a bronze (or melonized) distributor gear with that?

Re: TPI to Carb, What Distributor
 

Not with a stock cam

Re: TPI to Carb, What Distributor
 

according to Sallee-Chevrolet:

"2) All Roller camshafts are either Hardened Iron core or Steel camshafts which require a hardened distributor gear."

Wouldn't that include the cam from a stock 1990 l98?

Not bronze. Melonized.

I don't recall if the small-cap distributors used the same shaft size, but if they did, the gear off of the later distributor would be fine on an earlier large-cap. Or, you can get the melonized gear from GM.

Re: TPI to Carb, What Distributor
 

Would it be easier instead of trying to buy a new gear, just taking the stock distributor out and taking the gear off of it, then buying an Accel 59107 GM Hei Distributor and putting the stock gear onto that?

If the shafts are the same diameter, you can do that. But, I don't know whether or not they are.