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[orv]

Got a junkyard distributor from an old VW Fox, this morning, on my way to work. (Thank goodness for VW/Audi parts-bin engineering.) Going to slot it into the '89 Cabriolet tomorrow and see if it runs better. If not I'm perilously close to running out of ideas.

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[jon_helfrich]

Well it helps that the majority of VWs from 1984-1991 used the same engine.

One of these days, if I ever got into autocrossing with the Fox for example, I wanted to get the distributor and assembly for a knock sensor from an 8v Golf/Jetta. Apparently it all just swaps in place.

[orv]

Yeah, I think that's right. One of the things about CIS and CIS-E is the ignition and fuel injection are entirely independent.

The guy at the parts counter was surprised to learn that Cabriolets were still using non-knock-sensor ignition with a vacuum can on the distributor in '89. They actually stuck with it until the transition to Digifant, which came really late on that model line.