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• Ah, excuse me... (was: Re: Bosch Service Media)<F>
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:31:05 -0600
  ...needed service to my injection unit - especially from the media! My Digifant - or Digijet, or L-Tronic, or whatever you want to call it...
• Re: Considering I4 swap: 1.8 89 Golf vs. 1.8 VW Fox (90?)
  Historical mailing list - acg11awg
  Sun, 29 Jul 2001 21:09:36 -0400
  I did my own conversion to my '84 Westy using a 1.8 Digifant ll from a '91 Jetta. The power and economy have...
• Re: ecu 025 906 022 d
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:49:27 -0600
  > I have rebuilt Digifant ECUs ready to ship for $200 (again FYI). I don't > charge a core charge up front either, I just...
• Alternate tools for measuring RPMs?
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:41:32 -0500
  ...Can that be used? If so, where are the test points on a 2.1 digifant? The panel is gonna get fixed, but it...
• Re: strange bucking problem w/ '84 vanagon wbx
  Historical mailing list - Mark Cumnock
  Fri, 18 Feb 2005 23:12:22 -0500
  here are my 2 cents, i have had a digijet and now a digifant on my 84,i have a Jetta motor now, the...
• Re: Hall Senders
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel
  Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:25:15 -0800
  ...or that the engine is running ....I was prepared to run this 5 cylinder VW engine on waterboxer Digifant fuel injection if I had...
• Re: Speaking of idle stabilizers ...
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:10:30 -0700
  ...My apologies for not mentioning - 2.1L digifant. The AC system is stock '85. I know the IS should maintain around 850. It doesn...
• The Waveform is Different. Was: Extra Grounds on 1.9l
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:13:13 EDT
  ...While I can't directly comment on the 1.9 L Waterboxer as I run a 1.8L 8V GTi Digifant in line 4...
• Re: Digifant component comparison between Jetta and Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - mdrillock
  Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:58:11 -0800
  ...I am going to assume this for my use (yours too > if you agree) > > "Similar vintage Digifant systems appear to share the same components...
• Re: 2.0 ABA inline gas Vanagon. how it works
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:56:30 -0700
  ...Personally I'd source Digifant parts from a Jetta. There will likely be more choice in the used parts dept. Neil. On Wed, Oct...
• No Oil filler cap=poor idle..observation on Digifant..
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:50:39 -0700
  My van has an inline four VW motor..Digifant II injection, lots of the same parts as a WBX. So yesterday I was changing...
• Re: 1.9L to 2.1L Swap
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:57:41 -0700
  ...Regarding the EFI, both work equally well, why bother to switch? The Digifant and Digijet systems are very similar, with the Digifant slightly cleaner...
• WTB: 1986-91 wire harness
  Historical mailing list - Hector Zapata
  Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:49:22 -0400
  I need the harness so I can use the connectors to troubleshoot my Digifant system, doesn't have to be in great condition since...
• Re: Engine replaced but still the same symptoms???--Someone stick me in the eye with a dirty spark plug
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:58:31 -0400
  ...Bentley, look for cracks in the big black elbow hose, vacuum leaks. Digifant or digijet? Ken Lewis http://neksiwel.20m.com/ in statu viae
• Re: Are waterboxers junk?ECU CHIP.
  Historical mailing list - Modl6971
  Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:31:49 EDT
  ...1.9 with Digijet fuel injection to the 2.1 with Digifant for the 1986 model year, making 1986 to 1991 vans with the...
• ecu swap / seats
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:40:09 -0600
  -------------------------- Hi Volks, A friend and fellow listee Budd Premack would like to swap a digijet ecu with digitool cable installed for a digifant ecu...
• Re: Procedure for checking computer Temp sending unit
  Historical mailing list - Jfp w/3 WBXs
  Sat, 7 Sep 2002 18:05:38 +0000
  Hi Ken, If the Digijet is like the digifant, the sensor is an NTC or negative temperature coefficient device. The hotter it gets the...
• Re: digifant ECU pin numbering
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Mon, 11 Nov 2002 02:15:14 EST
  In a message dated 11/10/02 7:26:32 PM, lalofs@ENTERACT.COM writes: << I can't find any info in the Bentley...
• AFM vs MAF
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Atkins
  Mon, 24 Jan 2005 03:37:17 +0000
  Hey all, The AFM on my 2 liter audi 3a/ golf RV digifant conversion has about had it. It came from a junk yard...
• Re: Engine miss
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:52:46 -0700
  Does this version Digifant use an AFM? If so.... Faulty portion of resistive strip in the AFM? tencentlife on thesamba.com posted a great...
• Re: Are all 2.1 engines digifant?
  Historical mailing list - John Schwartz
  Mon, 5 May 2014 06:38:01 -0700
  ...Are all 2.1 engines digifant? The downloading and free sharing of copyrighted material is an illegal activity NOT encouraged or permitted on the...
• FS: Complete Digifant Setup
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:52:04 -0400
  ...This is the final version of the Digifant ECU, the nice low chip count unit, never had a problem with it. I'm looking...
• Digifant problem....closer to fixing
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon man
  Mon, 17 Jun 2002 08:55:55 -0400
  ...Last night red thru the protraining Digifant book, and Looked at the wiring diagram................Here are my discoveries. After reading, I really focused on...
• Re: Wasserboxer Engine Codes
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:44 +0100
  ...like the CU Motor watercooled SS 89>92 68/92 2109ccm Digifant with CC same as MV, with an extra small muffler and some...
• More adjusting mixture without gas analyzer
  Historical mailing list - Dan Hall
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:55:59 EDT
  ...I have an '86 Vanagon manufactured in November 1985 with Digifant injection. Thanks for the rapid responses to my earlier post. I hope to...
• Re: Digifant Tool
  Historical mailing list - Mike Ray
  Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:51:03 -0500
  O Joy! I told my boss I was going to make a "tool" and told him what I need and he handed me a...
• Re: VW approved engine conversion kit
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 11 May 1999 21:17:24 -0400
  ...The Digifant is a modified Motronic system, while the Digijet is a stock L-Jetronic system which uses conventional vacuum and centrifugal ignition timing...
• knock sensor question
  Historical mailing list - mike malkovich
  Fri, 11 May 2001 18:22:54 -1000
  ...I don't know what is meant by "the two terminals" thanks mike 85 I-4 conversion 1.8L digifant
• Charcoal canister on 2.1 digifant engines?, page 20.33
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:05:55 -0700
  On page 20.33 Bentley shows a hose going from the bottom of the charcoal canister to the air cleaner. On my 87 van...
• Westy has been sitting a while.
  Historical mailing list - Andrew
  Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:01:43 -0400
  My 84 Westy, with a Digifant II I4 conversion, has been sitting a couple years without running. How likely is that the injectors will...
• Re: Digitool: Digijet version?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Sullivan
  Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:20:01 -0800
  ...The only difference in the digijet and digifant WRT the digitool is the pin layout. If you are electronic savy and know which end...
• Re: Bucko update
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:40:31 -0600
  ...fix. > > Since the AFM syndrome affects WBX Digifant and well as 88-92 Golf-Jetta Digifant 2, this may be of some interest to...
• Re: Cold start issue
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:42:02 -0700
  ...The TempII > sensor for the Digijet is the same one as for the Digifant in Syncros. > In circuit with key on it reads about...
• Internal Pictures of ECU's and ISCU's
  Historical mailing list - tinker man
  Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:04:20 +0200
  ...Jon Kenneke reports his Digifant uses a 6803 uP. I find it quite amazing that VW implemented the same basic technology (digifant/digijet) with...
• Re: Digijet Digitool Info
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:03:05 -0600
  ...As you point out the tool will work equally well with a digijet or digifant. All that is required is to get the proper...
• Re: 5 cyl conversion update?
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:51:55 -0800
  ...It is how digifant works. If for some crazy reason there is NO knock sensor, you will be kissing that 2.0L away in...
• AC idle enrichment circuit
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:15:50 -0700
  ...This is in an '85 with a 2.1L and digifant system. IIRC, when it had the 1.9L, there was a switch that...
• Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:05:34 -0400
  Even with sequential fuel injection, intake valve opening events happen so fast that by 2-3k rpm the injector is spraying part of the...
• Re: What is a Digitool?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Tue, 13 Jun 2000 07:38:03 -0400
  http://scribers.midwest.net/midwesty/vw/Vanagon/DigiFantTool/ On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, mjg@DRIZZLE.COM laid this bit of wit and wisdom upon...
• Re: Airbox
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:30:29 -0400
  ...Airbox Hi folks, I have just about completed a conversion from diesel to digifant save one detail I am trying to figure out how...
• Re: Local gas prices
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:56:16 -0700
  ...Lambda-sensing fuel injection systems like the AFC, Digijet, and Digifant are actually pretty good at adapting to ethanol just as they are. Most...
• anyone have an extra ECU plug? Don't need the whole harness...
  Historical mailing list - Adam Behle
  Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:06:15 -0800
  ...Anything from 86 and up should work-I'm making a modified Digifant test tool. Please let me know if so and how much...
• Re: IDLE STABILIZER ???
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Holser
  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:23:29 -0700
  ...There are two basic variants on Vanagon fuel injection, Digijet and Digifant. In the US, they started Digifant in 1986 with the 2.0...
• Re: DEAD in my garage on New Year's Day
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:25:57 -0600
  ...The pins at the ECU connector are 14&6 for > Digijet and 6&9 for Digifant. > > Digijet Digifant > TEMPI 14&6 6&9 > TEMPII...
• Re: Analog TPS fitted to a WBX throttle body?
  Historical mailing list - Ian Butler
  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:48:54 -0500
  ...I got to see a 1977 Scirocco outfitted with a 2.0L 16v (continuous injection when stock) engine from a GTI, updated with Digifant...
• Re: WBX Digifant Ground Check. No Continuity Between Some Points.
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 17:14:06 -0700
  Warning. While that diagram is labeled 87 it isn't really. It looks like it was drawn from the error plagued Bentley 88/89...
• Re: Digifant Information
  Historical mailing list - Rob
  Fri, 1 May 2009 17:53:39 -0700
  At 4/30/2009 07:13 PM, David Beierl wrote: >Sounds as though S&S weren't thinking very clearly. You'll need to...
• clairification: Hot nuts up front. was: [Fwd: bosch digifant]
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Jun 1998 08:28:37 EDT
  In a message dated 98-06-25 08:00:47 EDT, GMBulley@AOL.COM writes: << If you suspect you have bearing problems, take a...
• Re: Digifant ECU Chip source located...$260 or less...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:51:53 EDT
  Mark, They seem to sell this only with a set of rockers. I tried several times to buy only the chip and got not...
• Re: ADJUSTABLE RISING FUEL RATE REGULATOR for WBX and others to cure lean engines
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Tue, 6 May 2003 08:51:46 -0700
  ...As if the digifant ECU needs something else to confuse it... Steve
• Re: Digifant, barometers, and the AFM
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:26:34 -0500
  ...book, the only altitude compensation in either Digijet (L-Jetronic) or Digifant 1 is provided by the O2 sensor. david At 14:03 11...
• AC Idle Stabilizer valve?
  Historical mailing list - Perry Patterson
  Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:16:31 -0800 (PST)
  ...I have an '87 Vanagon that's supposed to have the 2.1 w/Digifant. However, the PO had a crapped out 1.9...
• Re: adjustable rate fuel pressure regulator?...anyone tried one with Digifant?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 28 Aug 2013 01:19:17 -0400
  ...adjustable rate fuel pressure regulator?...anyone tried one with Digifant? I am no engine guy. When I raced, I had an Engine Guy do...
• Wiring Harness / Digijets
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 13 May 94 11:20:48 EDT
  ...All Vanagon Digifant Fuel Injection Engines ^^^^^^^^ This is the wiring harness problem. One of Joel's past posts described the Vanagon fuel injection systems...
• I4 2.0L Fuel Economy Survey
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 14 May 2002 21:05:29 -0700
  ...The engine is a 2.0L "3A" Audi block with a 1.8L 33/40mm valve Digifant II head from a Golf with the...
• Re: Idle Stabilizer Control Unit Reverse Engineering
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:43:49 -0800
  ...Which is more reliable? The CIS or Digifant fuel injection system? This will wheigh in if I make a Jettagon out of my Westy...
• VAG1367 Vanagon Tester
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 09 Oct 94 11:25:23 EDT
  ...in all our manuals to test the basic operation of our Digifant Motors (1986-1991). This is the $2,000 tester you can buy...
• LOST VANAGON FILES
  Historical mailing list - john
  Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:11:01 -0500
  ...So if you are waiting for something from me (i.e purchase of 2.1L dipstick tube, Digifant training materials etc.), please contact me...
• VW Vanagon ProTraining Fuel systems Type 2 Book on Ebay
  Historical mailing list - Nick Meyers
  Sat, 27 May 2000 09:04:26 EDT
  ...Low reserve! This is the Dealer only book, 134pgs, covers AFI, digijet and digifant in detail. Very good condition. It is a neat diagnostic...
• Re: duel fuel westy, LPG/propane or gasoline
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Bryson
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 04:13:00 -0700
  ...Its a duel fuel system so the original digifant is still in place > and functional. You just flip an electrical switch on the dash...