[s-cars] re: stumbling, stalling, dead. (Happerfusing)

[Igor Kessel]

Paul Gailus wrote:

 > I send Igor the $0.02, but I'm going to wait till the
 > weather warms up before I go out to the car and take
 > a look at this ;-)
 >
 > Seriously, though, all I can do is offer some suggestions
 > to check out. Another alternative to consider would be
 > to put the fuse holder block above the driver side foot well,
 > since you should have access there to the switched 12V
 > "circuit 15" from the ignition switch (black wire).
 > You would have to route the 5 wires from the fuses
 > into the engine compartment through a firewall grommet,
 > or through the "aux relay panel #1" under the hood.
 >
 > Perhaps the easiest (but least elegant) solution would
 > be to put individual in-line fuse holders in each of the
 > wires under the hood. Preferably these would be of the
 > marine type to handle the exposure, and be placed away
 > from the heat of the exhaust system.
 >
 > Paul

OK, folks, I have finally gotten around to doing this. My initial idea 
was to install the elegant weatherproof fuse holder for blade type fuses 
with a clear snap on cover, which I had ordered from Demon Tweeks in the 
UK many years ago. It would've fit nicely behind the POS block, in the 
firewall cavity.
Alas, I had to discard this idea coz this 4-fuse block was 1 fuse short 
for the 5 cylinder AAN engine. Installing the second 4-fuse block was 
not an option due to the space constraints.

Although hesitant at first I have finally elected to install five 
in-line waterproof yellow silicon fuse holders per Paul's suggestion 
above. You can see them if you follow this link:
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/graphics/product_images/p560362reg.jpg

I marked the fuses 1-2-3-4-5 so that if one of them blows I would know 
which injector plug to disconnect.

I've put five fast blowing 1.25" long glass 5A fuses in those holders. I 
hope that if one of the coils decides to shorten its primary winding to 
the ground like it had happened recently on Stefan's car, its 5A fuse 
will blow soonet than the 15A common fuse for the coils and the ECU.

The fuses go in-line between the coil packs and the two white 3-pin 
jacks on the firewall.

-- 
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros in the stable,
the third one is in the works