DatSub

Hey I dunno if it's still going down, but I would love to take my Brat out with you guys. I just got a 78 and I am working on getting it through emissions; it should be through by friday. Then in goes the weber, electronic dist & alternator and I should be running some better low end. I've never been out to Sand Lake and the videos I've seen of it make it look fantastic! DATsub

This is right here in PDX!? I will have to keep my eyes peeled, never seen a 360 in real life, nonetheless one that nice! DATsub

Hello! This is my first post, but at some point soon I'll introduce myself and my Brat. To make a long story short I bought a 78 Brat from a shop a little pre-maturely, especially since I'm very new to working on cars. They had just re-built the heads, but it hadn't really been tuned or anything. I'm trying to get it through emissions and it miserably failed, so I am replacing the coil, distributor, and carburetor. I haven't rummaged around enough to find the distributor from an EA-81 but in the meantime I was going to slap on a Weber kit I got for it. I have been trying to find pictures of a 32/36 DGV setup on an EA-71 because I am having trouble clearing the distributor. At best the distributor cap is mashed down by the little valve/nipple thing that sticks out to the passenger side of the choke(with the choke facing the front of the car) and there's a nasty gap under the carb; so basically not going to work:confused:. I have looked around and tried to find anyone else having issues with this, but have not found anybody mention it. I tried flipping the carb around, but then the linkage is all f'd up and the gas line is right above the distributor and that doesn't seem right. Do I maybe have some different manifold that rides a little lower? Is the electronic distributor on the EA-81 about the same size as the one on there now? Maybe it's smaller and most people swap that before the carb... I guess I am just confused that I hear these weber kits just snap on, but it's certainly not the case under my hood.:-\ My buddy does metal fab and he said he could easily make a riser for it, which is the route I am planning to go, but I figured maybe someone could enlighten me. Any help would be much appreciated. I'll post some pics tomorrow. DATsub