[Vwdiesel] Engine Lineage

[Shirley, Mark R]

I've got a book somewhere that details the differences.  
I think it was the Bosch diesel injection manual.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LBaird119 at aol.com [mailto:LBaird119 at aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:39 PM
> To: scameron at compmore.net; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Engine Lineage
> 
> 
> What's the difference??
> 
> If there is ANY way to change the car pump to a speed 
> governing pump, I need
> to know, for the volksgen project
> 
>   I never did hear any specifics but Jake was doing a lot of 
> reading on 
> anything 
> he could get his hands on about the VW diesels.  He said VW 
> (Bosch?) found it 
> 
> quite a challenge to get the pump to respond smoothly in a 
> car application.  
> They first tried the industrial pump, thinking it might work 
> as is or closely 
> to 
> as is and were very disappointed with the results.
>   I'm sure to reverse engineer one wouldn't be so difficult 
> as you'd just 
> swap the proper springs, weights, levers, what-all is involved in the 
> change.
> 
> > 
> > List VE pump web sites, is the constant speed one a VE or 
> something else?
> > Does someone have a VE manual that describes the difference?
> > 
> 
>   It's still a VE pump as that is the style of the pump.  VE 
> is a distributor 
> 
> pump that looks like ours be it on a Peugeot, Audi 5 cylinder or what.
> 
>   It seems like your friendly pump shop should be able to 
> convert it for you.
>      Loren
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