[T3] Ignition Questions.

[Craigs List]

"Looks like a petronix"

I looked that up. I think you are right. I have never had one, and
I would have had to take it apart to read it. Thanks for spotting that for
me.

Adam

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM, jeffrey gunnarson <clockdoc56 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looks like a petronix
> On Jun 14, 2015 6:22 PM, "Craigs List" <craigslistcsprings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Crew,
> >
> > This weekend has been a blast. The old car is running really good, but I
> > felt like it was missing at low RPM. Just a gentle loss of power....an
> > intermittent miss..at low RPM.
> >
> > The first thing I did was replace the coil wire and the #2 spark plug
> wire.
> > The #2 has tape on one section leading me to believe it might have been
> > bleeding spark to cause the miss.  I have a full of new plug wires at
> hand,
> > but the new set is made for plugs without the tips on them. The set on
> the
> > car are for plugs with the tips screwed on, so I have to remove all of
> the
> > plugs. Replacing the two wires helped, but it wasn't 100%.
> >
> > Next, I pulled the distributor cap off. I was told I had electronic
> > ignition and I wanted to see what kind. I'm glad I did because it made me
> > realize the distributor cap positioning indention was rounded off on the
> > cap. You could move the cap when it was supposed to be set in position.
> > Easy enough, I have 2 extra distributors in the tool box under the hood.
> > Got that swapped out.
> >
> > Since I did that, I threw the timing light on. I can tell the advance
> > works, but I cannot time it. Seems that the cheap ass timing light I have
> > decided to quit working. It still blinks, but I cannot adjust to see how
> > much advance I am getting at full advance. Thanks Harbor Freight. :)
> >
> > So I took it for a drive to see what the butt dyno tells me. I think I am
> > all good.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what ignition I have?
> >
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1364190.jpg
> >
> > The dizzy is a Chinese 009. That might have to go, but it runs fine for
> > now. Why mess with it?
> >
> > What ignition setups are you guys running? I'm asking those with
> non-stock
> > setups. My long-term plan is going full EFI on this one. I like to mess
> > around, so I might have an 100 iterations on the way to getting there. :)
> >
> > Adam
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