WTB: Fuel Distributor for 16V

[kjbrosha at gmail.com (Kevin Brosha)]

Thanks for the advice on which fuel distributor I need, Cathy.  I think it
may be that the distributor is just on 16v Scirocco's only - I'm not sure,
but 3 distributors that were ordered that were supposed to work on the 16v
scirocco didn't.   If that's the case, my only hope is to find a used one -
the remans we ordered didn't work.  We've been unable to find anything in
eastern Canada in 3 months.

Can anyone with ETKA verify whether part nos are different for the 16v
scirocco and for other 16v fuel distributors?

If anyone on the list has a used fuel distributor they would be willing to
part ways with, they could help resurrect the red beast , , , for almost a
year she's been unusable.





On 12/10/06, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> On 1:10 pm 12/10/06 "Kevin Brosha" <kjbrosha@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmmm, does anyone know where I can get a fuel distributor for my 16V?
> > Given my lack of tools and space and knowhow, I have had my Scirocco
> > in a local shop for the past 3 months while they attempted to get it
> > working.  They've been unable to track down a fuel distributor -
> > they've been sent one 3 times that doesn't fit..  mentioned something
> > to me about 2 prongs.  I'm not sure.
> >
> > Anyway, do we have any advice on what I need and where to find it?
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
> I'm thinking that what you need is a CIS-E distributor.
>
> Very early Sciroccos had "straight CIS", with no O2 sensor at all. That's
> not what you want.
>
> Then there are two versions of Sciroccos with O2 sensors, CIS Lambda (8Vs,
> not sure if all of them were) and CIS-E (yours) The CIS-E one has a
> differential pressure regulator on the side that looks at the O2 signal
> (fuel mix) and tweaks the mixture based on that. So this is the one you
> want, and it has a 2 prong plug on it, so that's likely what they're
> talking about. I'm not sure what came with that besides 16V Sciroccos.
>
> Later 16Vs (Golfs/Jettas/Passats) had CIS Motronic, which is yet another
> variant of CIS, which will also give you the wrong distributor. They had
> the 2L engine (9A code) Yours will have a 1.8L engine, PL code, at least
> when it was born. :) It may be that only Sciroccos came with it.
> (BTW, it's not a JH either, that's also a  1.8L Scirocco engine, but it's
> an 8V, confused yet?)
>
> So I wonder what they did to turn up the distributor as the culprit? What
> were the symptoms? I can tell you if they sound like my car, which
> absolutely DID have a bad distributor. The main complaint was an
> inconsistent stumbling on demand, it was easily diagnosed by testing
> injector flow volume, one cylinder was getting 25% less fuel than the
> others. And swapping injectors made no difference to which cylinder was
> starved.
>
> I would think there would be some CIS-E distrubutors kicking around
> because
> people going to aftermarket engine management (ie, Megasquirt) no longer
> need them. GL with the hunt, and swapping the distributor isn't so tough,
> as long as you have the little copper gaskets and keep track of what line
> goes where.
>
> Ask if you need more info, I can probably dig it up for ya!
> HTH,
> Cathy
> 1987 16V Scirocco (CIS-E)
> 1979 8V Scirocco (CIS)
> 1988 Cabriolet (CIS-Lambda)
> and two parts Passats, long since gone (CIS-Motronic)
>
>