Sick 88 80Q

[Ti Kan]

Stacy Anable writes:
> A friend of mine and I have been tearing our hair out lately over his 88 80=
> q=2E it has the most maddening problem. when accelerating it with "cut out"=
>  almost like the fuel pump is turning off and turning back on, the same sen=
> sation as the over boost cut off in a turbo car, or a redline cut off in an=
>  N/A car.
> ...
> This whole thing started when a friend of his who is a mechanic, one that w=
> orks on american cars, and hates euros..... "cleaned" the injectors.

What was done to "clean" the injectors?

> [ ECU ]
> unit was "dangling" behind the dash, and when we opened it up, we found tha=
> t one of the darlington transistors was charred to a crisp, after consultin=
> g an electrical whiz friend of ours we purchased a replacement darlington a=
> nd soldered it in place. this made no difference, as a matter of fact, the =
> car runs the same with the jetronic unit in place as it does with the unit =
> unplugged....

Maybe some other things are also fried in the unit.  Did you check to make
sure it's getting power?  Are all fuses ok?

> soooo...another question, although the 80q is CIS-E 3 , will t=
> he computer from an 85 CIS-E 5000 work?

No, they are not interchangeable.

-Ti
2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
1984 5000S turbo
1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
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