[Vwdiesel] Question and injectors for trade also rear truck window for sa...

[gabangs at newmail.net]

OK,
You've peaked my interest... Re-engineering the VW diesel!
What exactly did you do to your prechambers?
I don't recall seeing any bandwidth concerning your head work.

-Gary, San Diego
1985 Quantum TD




On 2002.03.24 20:06:45 -0800 LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> > I noticed that these
> >  plugs have a brass top.  I seem to remember that fast glows have a
> brass 
> top
> >  and slow glows have a silver top.  Is this right...Loren are you
> there?
> 
>   Yup, Silver is slow, brass is fast.  :)
> 
> >  I also have 4 Stanadyne injectors that were pulled from a car after 3 
> months
> >  use and reshimed to TD specs.  They have never been back in the car
> since
> >  then.  I would like to trade for 4 good low use NA injectors so that I
> can
> >  have some spares laying around.  Anyone interested?
> 
>   You could just run them.  I've thought of trying it some time.  Higher 
> pressures should give better atomization.  You may want to advance 
> the timing a tad and turn up the delivery screw just a bit but maybe 
> not too.  :)
> 
>   I just turned up the timing on the Rabbit a couple days ago.  I went
> from 
> 1.05mm to 1.15mm.  I know Bentley calls for the 1.15 setting but at the
> dealer, we did 1.05.  I don't know if it's a discrepancy between the
> factory 
> and Bentley manuals or if they were just too darn "rattley" at the higher
> 
> setting.  It was darn pingy when I tried it once before but now it's
> GREAT!
> I have noticeable more power, much less smoke and I'll see what the 
> mileage does.  It looks like this compensates for the improved flow I 
> made when I messed with my prechamber inserts.  So far I seem to 
> have gained the best of both worlds. :)
>      Loren
> _______________________________________________
> vwdiesel mailing list
> vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/vwdiesel
>