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It's for the tachometer cable, most likely. Lots of people modified this area back in the day to run a tach-drive distributor when they changed generators or upgraded to an alternator. That would be my guess, at least.
Cars with fuel injection and the solid cam used a tach drive distributor. A 13/16" X 2 3/4" hole was used to route the cable to the tach. Is it possible your car was originally a F.I. car?
guess it probably is a distributor tach drive cable port. Car was a 2x4's with 6500 tach. Now to make a plug for the hole.
using the generator tach cable now. Thanks
guess it probably is a distributor tach drive cable port. Car was a 2x4's with 6500 tach. Now to make a plug for the hole.
using the generator tach cable now. Thanks
How do you know it was originally a 2x4 car? If it is a “distributor tach drive port” as you suggest, then 1snake is right. Only 290hp car would have had that. It warrants a closer look to see if it might have been an FI car from St. Louis.
Are you talking about the oval in the center of this pic? If I remember correctly there was a rubber plug in it. I believe my car was a low hp fuelie. I don't remember for certain but I think the tach cable came through the 1" hole just about the heater box hole. I didn't run across all of this until I was well underway with my plans. All of the holes are filled now.
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