balancer into trigger wheel

[Texlenin]

Moby, Matt, et all;

My first posting as a noob, so be gentle. Bessie the Wonder Z has a

83 longblock as her second heart. It's crankpulley has a large flange behind

the second (inner pulley). Could (or has) anyone tried to have teeth cut into this in leau of adding a separate wheel? I have no idea where this motor came from; I got it off of Jerry DeBenitto's(sic?) yard outta Fort Worth. I also don't know if it was originally T or N/A.....

I did a forum search week before last using "harmonic balancer" as the keyword

and found nothing related. To be honest, in all the pics I've seen here, I don't recall seeing quite the same set-up, but Bessie's like that. Thanks in advance

for any help anybody can give.....

[randy 77zt]

the crank pulley/balencer was off of a 82/83 turbo engine.81 turbo had a 90 tooth wheelwith a vr sensor-actually 2 sensors in 1.and yes you could machine teeth into the wheel.see 1 of my posts about 4 pages back in this forum.i cut 60 teeth (every 2nd and 3rd) out of a 81zxt balencer and mounted a cherry gear tooth sensor on a tab i welded on the a/c ideler pulley bracket.i took out 1 tooth at tdc.there is an excel file somewhere on ms website on how to enter the info for the # of teeth you have.i used the 3 leds to fire chevy lsx coils in a waste spark set up.i always try to use the minimum amount of parts to get the job done.i dont remember if the 82/83 pulley with the disc had the disc bolted to a non-rubberized part of the pulley-you wouldnt want it to slip.the 81 disc is and has a locator pin.there are many ways to get a ms system to work.even though i used to be a ford dealer tech i didnt want the extra outside edis module of the edis ign system and the extra wiring.

[Texlenin]

Thanks Randy!

Couple of extra ?'s You say your zxt already had teeth on it? Mine is simply a rounded disk- something different/weird? Aren't all the damper/pulley rigs using a keyway?

That was one of my worries- having the whole thing slip in time. I like to use the smallest # of parts as well- but at this point, MSnS/EDIS would STILL be less wiring and less problem than Bessie has now with stock components/wiring. I would like to be able to have her as a DD again someday.....

[gregkring]

The 81 turbo balancer has a seperate toothed wheel bolted to it. The 82-83 has the soldi disc like you describe and it is not removeable. I also converted mine over using the 81 disc machined down to mimic a GM shutter wheel. I am using a FAST computer originally designed for a grand national with waste spark. back int he day I built this the FAST had just came out for the grand nationals. The Accel DFI at the time also had GN options available, but those were my only choices since I wanted a waste spark ignition. The wideband of the FAST sealed the deal for me. I am in Arlington, PM me if you want to come over for ideas.