CIS gurus? Mind helping me out?

[ccarpen at earthlink.net (Cris Carpenter)]

If you have access to an earlier-style ignition setup (distributor and 
ignition module from a car without knock sensor), you could easily test if 
that pesky system is a possible source of your trouble. Dropping in a 
distributor with vacuum and mechanical advance systems and plugging in the 
corresponding ignition module would be quick and tell you if that is where 
your problem is.

We've talked about the rest: CIS system and control pressures, injector 
spray pattern and output, intake air leaks, fuel distributor...
If it were me, I'd try the earlier ignition setup first to narrow the 
search. Then you can say for sure whether you are talking about an ignition 
problem or something else.

Cris

At 09:10 PM 5/22/2005, you wrote:
>Message: 6
>Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 21:23:17 -0400
>From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>Subject: RE: CIS gurus? Mind helping me out?
>To: "Dick Y Wong" <sailingfc@dslextreme.com>
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Message-ID: <74418f9b22c35357007fa53e9d009844@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
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>
>On 8:53:26 pm 05/22/05 "Dick Y Wong" <sailingfc@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> > I have no experience with a knock sensing system, but what about the
> > knock sensor itself?  Torqued down, loose, if you pull it's plug does
> > the system go into a soft-fail mode?  I don't know what I'm talking
> > about here, just throwing our ideas.
> >
> > -Dick-
> > 78 Scirocco
> > Original Owner
> > 95 Passat GLX
> > Second Owner
>
>
>I don't know if it's good or bad, it's torqued to spec.