A friend of mine has an 82 vette. He just bought a performer RPM intake and 600 CFM Edelbrock Carb. Will the distributor from the cross-fire injection that's on the car now work with a standard intake/carb setup?

The check engine light will be on and it will probably idle rough and have hard starts or start up great and then want to die when its put in gear. You need a computer controlled carb or better yet get rid of all the computer stuff and use a HEI from 75-80.

If it's one of the 7 pin Chevy HEI modules you can short two of the wires and it will work fine, it will bypass the timing computer this way. I've been running one like this for years and it works fine.

What color were the two wires? I may try this, if it dont work I have an old HEI that I can rebuild.

Don't do that. Buy an earlier non-computer controlled HEI and drop it in. The 12V+ (power) and TACH (tachometer signal wire) connectors will still hook right up just like stock. And just leave the computer connection wires dangling from the wiring harness.

The computer controlled HEI distributor you have in there now has it's advance curve supplied electronically by the ECM. When the ECM sees that the fuel injection stuff is gone it'll freak out and give you a very weak advance curve, if it gies you any advance at all. Killing any chance you have at making good power with the new carb setup.

Awesome, thanks for the info. I'd told him I was pretty sure he should just go pick up one from a junk yard.