Wild idea after reading and learning about the optispark. You think there could be a way to mount the optispark on the front of a engine and run it off the crank, but use only the opti part, and then...

Ok now I'm getting confused. Are yall saying he can use the MSD box instead of the 8 pin HEI module (for the op, thats the ignition module used with a the 16197427 pcm we are talking about, and many...

Not knowing anything about the msd ignitioin, but if the pickup coil in the distributor is like the stock one, you should be able to use it to trigger the GM system. I know the stock amc motocraft...

The LT1 system is a good system, but like mentioned above, its not very swap friendly to other engines. The main part being the optispark. Probably the only way would be to make a hybrid distributor...