Re: distributor q's

["Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

I had oily gunk in my distributor for a while too.  It's probably the 
seal at the end of the cam.  I would say that it's bad because my 
distributor finally died.  One day the car was running and then it 
stopped.  That was it.  So I would suggest getting a better distributor.  
I got a new one which was $250 I think.  My mechanic told me not to use 
a rebuilt one because they are not reliable with this particular 
distributor.

The "euro" 16V distributor will not do anything with a CIS-E car.  The 
Hall sensor in our distributors goes to an ECU which controls the 
advance.  The "euro" distributor would have a recurve to work with a 
vacuum advance, knock sensorless system, which the US 16v's do not have.  
To recurve a 16v distributor, you would have to use a "chip" in the 
ignition ECU.  No one has done this to my knowledge.  The KE-Jetronic 
that our cars use is the last step of FI before Motronic where ignition 
and fuel mixture is handled by the same computer.  It's kind of a bummer 
only because there is no performance chip we can throw in to change the 
fuel and timing maps.  

HTH,
Ian Overholt
'88 16v


From: "Ryan Schuermann" <rts@nol.net>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 16:37:46 +0000
Subject: distributor q's
Reply-to: rts@nol.net

hey, i have a dis but theres oily gunk inside of it..where thehall 
sender is and such (behind the plastic cap), is this bad, is the dist 
no good? is it suppose to be as clean in there as in the cap?

also whats up with the 'euro' 16v dist ron is selling? any comments 
on it?whats the differenct? more advance due to different springs and 
weights or something?

Ryan
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