[T3] D-Jet /L-Jet

Jacob Hoffman jacob at jacobhoffman.com
Thu Feb 14 08:46:20 PST 2013


My friend has a V12 jaguar with d-jet. I can't remember in what respect,
but some facet of the system behaved like two systems cobbled together. I
think maybe it had two distributors. Also, all the Bosch components were
stamped "Lucas".
On Feb 14, 2013 8:33 AM, "Jim Adney" <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 14 Feb 2013 at 9:23, Mark Poulton wrote:
>
> > D-jet was fitted to the 6 cylinder M30 engines in BMW's of the early
> > 1970's, certainly in Europe. The 1973 3.0CSi E9 coupe I owned 10 years
> > ago was fitted with it - the only problem I had with the system was a
> > faulty cold start relay, and a replacement was readily available then
> > through their dealer network. I would expect the CSL and the non carb
> > fitted E3 saloons would have had this also.
>
> Wow, the 3.0 Csi was an absolutely beautiful car. I worked with a guy
> many years ago who owned one, but I don't remember his ever
> mentioning D-jet. It may have been, however, as he only loved it
> because it was a BMW and didn't really get into what was under the
> skin.
>
> My 1985 Bosch FI catalog doesn't list any BMW D-jet cars, but it
> probably only shows US cars that were made in sufficient quantities.
>
> Do you remember what the trigger points looked like? How many
> contacts in the connector?
>
>
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