[s-cars] 1.8t coil conversion saga

[Tom Mullane]

I'm surprised you guys are simply happy to buy more coil packs.  What about
getting Audi to warranty the parts?

Are you running the cover?

Tom


Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:53:11 -0600
From: "Varon H. Fugman" <vfugman at globaldialog.com>
Subject: [s-cars] 1.8t coil conversion saga
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With an OEM coil on the way out (failing gradually over a period of months),
I finally took the plunge a couple months ago and ordered the 1.8t coil
conversion harness and a set of 5 coils from 034 Motorsport for $355.  They
shipped the kit the same day, and the workmanship on the wiring harness is
beautiful-no way I could do this good of work myself (not the mention the
time to source parts and put it all together.  But I digress.)



Installation was a piece of cake.  Took much longer to rewire connector #2
from the ECU back to the factory configuration-I had had it wired to use the
spare POS channel.



Car seemed to run smoothly with the new coils in place, with the possible
exception of an oh-so-very-slight loss of power at full boost.  But with
some of you 400+hp guys running the 1.8t coils I figured there couldn't be a
problem running the 1.8t coils on my 280hp TAP Stage I setup.



3 weeks later, drove 400 miles to St. Louis for Thanksgiving.  Car runs
great.  Start the car on Thanksgiving Day, car runs rough.  Coil in cylinder
#4 had died.  Swapped coil with #3 to make sure.  All VW dealer parts
departments closed for 4 day weekend, so I had to spend a couple days longer
in St. Louis than planned.*