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

[Huw Powell]

> I was falling asleep last night while I was writing that so let me
> explain a little more clearly.  Instead of using the pin style coil,
> cap, rotor and wires.  I swapped in all the other style components
> from my 83 CGT (cap, rotor, wires, coil.)  I am wondering though if
> there is something different between the 83 gt and the 85 4kq that
> requires the 4kq to have the pin style instead of the earlier style.
> I'm not mixing components, I just replaced the worn out later style
> with virtually new earlier style stuff.

Ah, ok, then you should be fine.  The "old style" wires work on either 
style dist. cap, if I recall correctly.  The "new style" wires won't 
make contact in the old cap/coil.

> Also, am I correct in assuming that the injectors wont know which
> port they are attached to on the CIS head.  The cold start injector
> is attached to the original port on the side of the head but all the
> other ones are in different places because I turned the CIS unit
> around Urq style.

You are correct, they all get the same pressure as each other, all the time.

>> 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 sereemed 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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