3.4 carb and dist

[berniejayd]

I'm currently building a 3.4 engine for Lotus track car. Anyone have experience with carburation and use of a distributor for this engine?
bernie

[bszopi]

Which 3.4 are you referring to?

[berniejayd]

3.4

3.4 as was in an 1995 Camaro.. I think refered to as Gen 1
Bernie

[bszopi]

Ok. At least its an iron head engine, so there is a manifold available to run a carb and a distributor. Reason I asked is many people want to use a carb and dist on a newer 3400 engine, but still refer to it as a 3.4. There isn't anything available that allows a carb to be bolted up to the aluminum heads.

There are several guys on here running carbs and distributors... What questions or concerns do you have?

[ezrollin]

I had an Offenhauser manifold with a 390 Holley on my 2.8 with early distb;it ran real well with a 260 cam. The Offy is no longer available,I think it was a better manifold than the edelbrock. I have seen a custom 4 bbl manifold made using the lower base of an efi and design for high rpm,that would be your best bet if you or someone could weld up an alum. upper.

[ssdurango]

I'm running a nice mallory unilite distributer on my 3.4

[berniejayd]

carb/dist

Brad, I wanted to here from people using carbs just to see what varrious arrangements they were using. It would appear that the carb route works. I will be using Al heads and would make a mountings using the plenum as a base.
Question ssdurango: what was the application for your Mallory dist.? I mean was it made for an earlier engine like the 2.8 or what?
Bernie

[bszopi]

If you are planning on using the aluminum heads, you have a lot of work ahead of you. The distributor will not clear a stock lower intake, let alone the upper plenum. So even if you used the lower with a custom upper, you are still going to run into issues mounting the dizzy.

[ssdurango]

berniejayd: It was made for a carbed 60*v6. I have it on an iron head 3.4. I've cut out and welded in the back cross over on the camaro lower intake manifold. It's a supercharged propane setup I made.

[geoffinbc]

berniejayd: It was made for a carbed 60*v6. I have it on an iron head 3.4. I've cut out and welded in the back cross over on the camaro lower intake manifold. It's a supercharged propane setup I made.

Dude I gotta see pics of that!!!

[ssdurango]

Did you want to see a pic of the lower intake manifold or the whole setup?

[geoffinbc]

Anything you got. I have never seen a boosted propane setup

[ssdurango]

I thought I showed you these before...

[20-inch-bike]

dist...

i have a stock hei dist. for a 2.8, the dist. will drop right in a 3.4 or even a 3.1... since it is an hei its a 1 wire stand alone system

[geoffinbc]

I thought I showed you these before...

No I don't remember seeing those pics. Crazy. I also noticed the Hydroboost. Did you buy a kit or build one yourself?