Converter kit for driving an engine distributor from the front end of the engine camshaft

That improvement for an internal combustion engine of the type manufactured with the front end of its camshaft driven from the front end of the crankshaft and its rear end connected to drive the distributor, said improvement comprising:

• a main body for operatively supporting the distributor for drive from the front end of the camshaft and having a pair of passages at right angles to one another and open at one end of each passage, a spiral gear and drive shaft therefor journalled in one of said passages which drive shaft is adapted to extend through an opening formed through the engine camshaft cover plate from the exterior side thereof and to be coupled to the adjacent end of the camshaft, the second one of said tubular passages being adapted to receive the shaft and drive gear of the distributor after being dismounted from the rear end of said camshaft, and said main body including means for securing the same on the front end of the engine independently of and exteriorly of the camshaft cover plate.

A converter kit for use in driving an OEM engine distributor from the front rather than the rear end of the engine camshaft, said kit comprising:

• a cross-shaped hollow casting adapted to be sandwiched between the engine cooling pump and the front end of the engine block, said casting having a tubular stem open at its upper end and a cross arm the outer ends of which are each provided with a passageway therethrough alignable with and connectable between a respective flow passage of the engine cooling pump and the associated cooling passage at the front end of the engine block, a first set of cap screws for holding said pump and said casting rigidly clamped to the engine, the lower end of said tubular stem having a spiral gear mounted on a drive shaft the outer end of which projects through the side-wall of said casting and is adapted to extend through a stock camshaft cover plate and to be coupled to the front end of the camshaft, and the engine distributor being mountable vertically within said tubular stem with its drive gear in mesh with said spiral gear.

A converter kit for use in converting an engine to drive the distributor from the driven end of the engine camshaft after being manufactured with the distributor at the non-driven end of the camshaft, said kit comprising:

• a support bracket for a distributor, a pair of mating spiral gears assembled to and journalled in said bracket on respective shafts at right angles to one another including a distributor drive shaft having an end projecting from the sidewall of said bracket and adpated to be coupled to the front end of the engine camshaft through the camshaft cover plate, means for rigidly securing said support bracket to the front end of the engine block exteriorly of the camshaft cover plate using the threaded fastener openings employed to hold the engine cooling pump assembled to the engine cooling passages, and said distributor drive shaft being adapted to extend through an opening formed for said distributor drive shaft in a stock camshaft cover plate.