im noticeing what people are posting up distys for sale i have seen mention several times about it being from an auto car.

the reason im asking is the motor i dropped into my 85 was from an 87 4wd auto wagon, and i left the motor complete other than swapping on the better carb from the 85 motor. ither than the fact that the one i have on it now is a nippen denso disty and the original 1 was a hitachi is there any reason it would make any difference in the way my sooby runs???

I think that kind of technical info is hard to get..Generally speaking (because I don't know for sure concerning subaru) but with other car makers..ex. VW..there is a difference between a distributor for automatic vs. manual..the best way to find out is to put it on a distributor machine or compare the two dist. at different RPM's while in the car with a "back to 0" timing light