[s-cars] New 1.8t Coil Pack Conversion ECU to Coils Connector Possibility?

forgied at direct.ca forgied at direct.ca
Sun Apr 2 12:19:04 EDT 2006


A fellow on the S2 forum (mostly U.K. owners) with an S4 Avant, “Merlin”,
discovered my 1.8t coil pack conversion pdf in the fall:

http://www.s-cars.org/postnuke/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=191&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Merlin made a post to the S2 forum alerting them to this alternative. 
Since then, several S2 forum members have successfully made the
conversion. Recently Merlin posted that he had found some four-pin Volvo
connectors that work, plug and play, for the connection between the ECU
and the coils.  I posted one of Merlin’s photos on AW and asked if anyone
familiar with Volvos knew these connectors:

http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/113889.phtml

I also asked Merlin on the S2 forum for more information.  Merlin
responded with:

"Pretty sure they were from a petrol (gas) S40 around 1997-1999ish. I
found a few down at the breakers (wreckers) but I seem to remember that
they weren't on the diesel version. I can't remember what the plugs were
for but they were fairly obvious in the engine bay! It is also very simple
to remove the pins from the plugs. I did this so that I could solder my
cables directly to the pins and then push them back into the housing!!"

Danny Brook, the fellow who did the wiring diagram for my pdf write-up,
sent me an email with some photos (tiny ones though) of four-pin Volvo O2
sensor connectors. They look tantalizingly correct.

I wasn’t able to get to a Volvo wrecker yesterday (downpour in Vancouver)
as planned. Any body familiar with Volvos (or O2 sensors) think there is
light at the end of the tunnel?

Dave F.





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