Goodbye CIS-III, the Haltech IG5 is in!

[gti]

well, i just got the electromotive hpx4 crank trigger ignition on my daily
driver gti that has dual sidedraughts and all i can say is good things. very
well built and works great. if i wanted i can get a slider in the cab and
while driving, adv/retard my timing among other things like a map sensor and
a backup trigger sensor. i payed 510 us dollars from totalperformance. heres
the hpx- http://www.electromotive-inc.com/products/hpx.html also i talked to
a tech at electromotive about wire recommendations and the tech was very
nice and knew exactly what i had etc. they dont have a 5cyl solution but i
imagine they would modify a hpx6 possibly.

-cole
92 2.0 16v Gti Sidedraught'd

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Marc Swanson
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 5:36 PM
To: Jim Green
Cc: Quattro list
Subject: Re: Goodbye CIS-III, the Haltech IG5 is in!


> So here's how it went down, I came to a point where I
> was just sick of trying work with what I have.  The
> CIS-III ignition worked great with my MC motor.  When
> I put in the MC-2 with higher compression, and a
> shaved head, it was just to picky.  So I looked at all
> the stuff out there, and for $415 from Force-EFI, the
> Haltech IG-5 sounded like the way to go.  The only
> thing that made me consilder something like a Linkplus
> was that the Haltech will not direct fire a five
> cylinder.  The lack of knock sensing is not a big deal
> to me since my motor seems to set it off anyways above
> 4500 rpms.  The IG5 also has four outputs that you can
> use for stuff like wastegate boost control,
> intercooler fans, radiator fans, turbo timers, and
> some other stuff.

not bad.. but I think I'd want coil outputs for that money.  I can
understand the lack of knock sensing sense racers are more likely to
tune things so that knock should never happen.  a visible output like
the saab setup sounds pretty cool..  Could you describe that setup a bit
more as I may be interested in more informative knock output....

I have yet to see how my CIS 3 ignition will perform as the car is 2
states away right now and I haven't had a chance to get much seat time
in it to tune it up and take it for some hard runs.

Later


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Marc Swanson, Software Engineer
Sonitrol Communications Corp.
Hartford, CT

Email: mswanson at sonitrol.net
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