Scirocco-ignition woes

[brianm at earendel.org (Brian)]

You'll need an earlier car without knock. the distributor has mechanical 
advance in it, which is required for the proper operation of your car. 
If you want to do a knock conversion then you'll need the ICU.


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 SCIROCCO75@aol.com wrote:

> Hello again, Michael here and  I am still trying to get my 75 scirocco 
> running at least once before it goes into winter storage! I have just worked through 
> my relay board problems but not before I burned up my pertronics ignitor! 
> It's a '96 2.0 dualcarb motor, and I am wondering if I can use a hall sender 
> distributor from an '86 1.8 CIS car. Now the distributor has a plug-in that has 3 
> wires from the distributor connector, which has small markings of  (+ )and( - 
> ), which I ran to the coil, and an (o) in the center.  The center wire is 
> green and white and would go to the Ignition control unit. My block does have an 
> unused knock sensor if it makes a difference, but there is no I.C.U.   Is this 
> making sense to anyone? I could go on, but if  there is any advise or 
> discussion I would appreciate it. Thanks, Michael
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