A lot of energy has gone into making small-block Fords perform better during the past 44 years. Those first small-block Fords-the 221 and the 260 Fairlane V-8s from 1962-were fairly tame with an ...

On the next few pages, we will show you how to rebuild a points distributor. The one shown is out of a small-block Chevy engine, but points ignitions are very similar regardless of the ...

With an Autolite V-8 single-point distributor, vacuum and centrifugal advance units work seamlessly together, with the vacuum advance handing off to the centrifugal advance as rpm increases.