[s-cars] 034 Motorsports coil conversion harness

[David Forgie]

Tom: As the developer of the original 1.8t conversion instructions in Sept. 2005 (034 and Apikol didn't start marketing their kits until April 2006), I can assure you that the "dwell" issue is a red herring for almost all applications.  I am fully RS2'd and have zero such issues.  Dave Dawson here on this list, AFAIK, is making over 400 hp running these coils.

I have no idea what you problem is but I am wondering whether 034 instructed you to trim both part of the hard plastic and the rubber sealing gasket sufficiently to allow the 115R coil packs to snap down firmly onto the spark plugs.  If the coil packs aren't snapped onto the plugs I can imagine that you would get some kind of spark gap jump issue from the inside end of the coil pack to the plug top at higher RPM and/or load.

Please check out the original instructions linked through the AudiWorld UrS car FAQ:

http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/195907.phtml

Some people, including Marc Swanson, have had 1.8t coil pack failures related to sustained high RPM during track events with a higher hp AAN.  I think at that point, dwell could be an issue.  However, for normal driving and only periodic WOT, I do not believe that dwell is an issue.

Dave F.