WTB: Fuel Distributor for 16V

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  I remember using a Rabbit GTI fuel distributor on my 84 8v.
  I called my garage to see what they suggest.
  He says some of the later Scirocco models are fairly complex. What he 
did once was install the complete airbox from a Fox, and added an 
external regulator.
  Good luck!
       Jean-Claude
       84 8v

Kevin Brosha wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
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