you'd have to gut the opti and still run an ordinary distributor somewhere else, since a traditional SBC waterpump wont clear the optispark cap. then you'll find the LT1 waterpump can't be used to...

the lt1 ecm requires encoded cam position pulses from an optispark for timing reference. it doesn't use a crank sensor. most other ecms use either a hall effect thing or a different type of encoder...

yep, something like that. cool project

it would actually be pretty easy to make a lil' DSP box to convert (and interpolate) various types of distributor signals...

a lower resolution signal could be faked into a working opti signal...

no, it won't work. the opti has completely different signalling. you would have to build a distributor with the proper signaling, probably gutting an opti for its wheel and sensor. it has been...