Need help, anyone with a CIS degree and familiar with Audi ignition systems

[Huw Powell]

> Also the ignition on my car was the type that had the post style
> terminals in distributor and coil instead of being hollow with the
> contact around the outside.  I had a set of wires for the other style
> of terminal and a coil, cap, rotor...  so I put all of those onto my
> 4kq distributor and everything seemed to fit fine.  I guess I just
> need to know If I can actually do that and expect it to run or if I
> need to get a set of wires and a cap/rotor that all have the post
> style terminals....

Sounds like a bad idea to me... you need those wires to make 
metal-to-metal contact in there, and that combo won't.  No wonder...

> The car fired up but didn't run very well

Probably because, if nothing else, you're making the poor spark jump a 
gap in the dist. cap to get to the wires.

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Huw Powell

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