Downgrading the engine

[bbeacock@rogers.com (Ben Beacock)]

Take the fuel distributor from the Scirocco (without frequency valve)
and use it in the GTI.  
If you use the GTI fuel distributor, the frequency valve must be
working/hooked up for it to run properly.  I believe the Lambda computer
defaults to rich if the O2 sensor is disconnected but that is better
than disconnecting the freq valve connector.  

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of W. Hawker
Sent: October 29, 2002 10:48 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Downgrading the engine

I must admit, it is a bit unusual, but it was necessary to take the
1.7l
engine from my project Scirocco  and put it in my everyday driver, an 83
Rabbit Gti  (I will be rebuilding the 1.8 as a winter project). I took
the
entire 1.7 except the fuel control unit. The Gti had of course, an O2
sensor, frequency valve on the fuel distributor, both of which are
absent on
the 1.7l. Question is, will disconnecting the O2 sensor, full throttle
switch  and maybe the frequency valve, adversely affect the engine
management system.? Will the ignition control unit be affected, and is
there
anything I can do to make this engine work effectively on the Gti. How
about
pulling any electrical components associated with the emission controls?
Oh
by the way, I am keeping the catalytic converter.

Bill
82 Scirocco (Project)
83 Gti  


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