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  • Re: O2 sensors effect on power
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:57:58 -0500
    ...power than a non-senosred digijet, because the digifant >will never set optimum power fuel mixture, while the digijet system can >be set to...
  • Re: 2.1 VS 1.9 AFM
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:09:19 -0700
    ...intake runners, and 2.1 full exhaust , and run that off digijet ...works great ! but yeah ...maybe someone will comment ..- electronics wise ( or I...
  • Re: 1985 Vanagon 1.9l Digijet No Start
    Historical mailing list - Mark Pinnell
    Mon, 7 Nov 2022 16:00:31 -0500
    ...1985 Vanagon 1.9l Digijet No Start >> > *Date*: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 07:11:18 -0500 >> > >> > Hi All, >> > Looking for suggestions/next steps. Pearl...
  • Re: WTB: Westy '80+
    Historical mailing list - tony gould
    Mon, 20 Nov 2000 10:09:01 -0800
    ...1.9L's > use the antiquated Digijet. Digijet lacks the > knocksensing capability of the > Digifant systems which again help your engine last > longer. > > Most...
  • Re: 2.1 in a 85........
    Historical mailing list - Paul
    Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:36:00 -0800
    ...I have > been running a 2.1 in my 84 Westy Ole Putt since 1997 in Kalifornia, > always passed with the 1.9 Digijet...
  • '85 Engine Parts for sale...
    Historical mailing list - Bill Kenneke
    Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:37:25 EDT
    ...9L 110.00 (both for $200) Distributor (used) 75.00 ECU, Digijet 235.00 Exhaust sys (minus cat) 120.00 Flywheel, NEW, 96.00...
  • Re: Fuel pumps
    Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
    Fri, 12 May 2006 08:12:23 -0700
    ...The Digijet/Digifant systems operate > at 1.1 bar. A Golf pump would bust the plumbing on a > Vanagon. Unfortunately prices are down to...
  • Re: didijet tool
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:16:07 -0500
    ...This is how I modified Darrell's Digitool to work with the Digijet FI on my 85 GL. For the LED's: Pin #13...
  • Re: 2.0L I4 Opportunities
    Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
    Tue, 14 May 2013 05:07:22 -0700
    ...Converting the Digijet to Digifant seemed to me to be an unproductive and costly step. I choose to use the engine management system that...
  • Re: Engine erratic power.
    Historical mailing list - Tonya Pope
    Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:16:45 -0800
    ...chapter on VW Vanagons that was very informative! Describes the digifant, digijet and something else on various VW models with wiring schematics, testing procedures...
  • Re: Thread pitch / hole size for 1.9 WBX O2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
    Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:32:47 -0500
    ...Is it the same for the Digijet O2 >> sensor? They don't go in >> the same pipe or location so they aren't >> necessarily...
  • Re: Soliciting VW Engine Recommendations
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:40:33 -0800
    ...Doing this on a 2.1 WBX Vanagon allows one to keep some of the 2.1 parts. (air cleaner etc.) With Digijet, how...
  • Re: Idle stabilizer
    Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
    Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:47:58 -0700
    ...Furthermore, I didn't know that the DJ engine had the Digijet, I thought it had the Digifant, I don't have any manual...
  • Re: Computer woes?
    Historical mailing list - John Anderson
    Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:56:09 -0400
    ...The old air valves on the Digijet didn't do a thing except with A/C, P/S, or warmup, they were simply open...
  • Re: What are the symptoms of a failing TEMP II Sensor?
    Historical mailing list - Benny boy
    Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:24:09 -0400
    ...http://www.benplace.com/engine/temp_sender_2.jpg http://www.benplace.com/85rouge/rouge111.jpg the blue one again on Digijet 1.9...
  • Re: Digijet rough/wandering idle and bucking at slower speeds
    Historical mailing list - Skip
    Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:44:57 +0000
    ...Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:35:54 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Digijet rough/wandering idle and bucking at slower speeds Any tears in the...
  • Re: Engine power loss (need help)
    Historical mailing list - Blake Heinlein
    Fri, 18 Oct 2002 10:55:15 -0400
    ...I >have an '84 Westy Automatic 1.9L Digijet Injection. > >Here are they symptoms: >- Idles fine >- Accelerates at about 1/2 of normal rate...
  • Re: 1.9 oil light/preassure issue
    Historical mailing list - neil N
    Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:06:10 -0800
    ...oil pressure >> switch ratings on the 1.9 WBX. Bentley sez: Digijet '83 '84, '85 >> switch is 1.8 bar. Allans comment and looking...
  • Re: 2.1 L Engine rebuilds
    Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
    Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:25:02 -0400
    ...There are some people who have taken a 2.1 and just dropped it into an 1.9 powered van and used the Digijet...
  • Re: My poor Engine..
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Sun, 21 Mar 1999 07:26:00 -0600
    -------------------- Hi Jason, Our vanagons L-jetronic, digifant, and digijet inject all 4 cylinders at the same time. There is nothing sequential about them. You...
  • Re: Connector contact intermittant--Digitool to the rescue
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:35:34 -0500
    ...Digifant and digijets have very similar readings. I have been playing with the digitool on my 78 westy which has an 81 Cal vanagon...
  • Re: tech asst in WI or MI, fuel filter location
    Historical mailing list - Vince S
    Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:55:31 -0700
    ...AC, p 20.2 - 20.3 and 20.4 Digijet, 20.16 - 20.17 and 20.18, both the small plastic cube like filter...
  • Re: VANAGON digest 1366
    Historical mailing list
    Mon, 19 May 1997 16:28:12 +0000
    ...attention to the hi-idle threads, now I'm plagued... > 85 Digijet idles fine until engine is completely warmed up, then it surges > and...
  • Re: hall-effect part
    Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
    Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:24:28 EDT
    ...I believe it is the unit Bentley calls the Hall Generator which mounts next to the Idle Stabilizer in the Digijet system. I do...
  • Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
    Historical mailing list - Benny boy
    Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:25:05 -0400
    ...Reason to stay with Digijet/1.9 setup: >> -Less expensive exhaust system >> -More reliable and simpler FI system >> -More Digijet used part available and...
  • Re: 85 westi engine questions
    Historical mailing list - Robert Williams
    Mon, 22 Sep 1997 23:00:42 -0700
    ...1L engine? > (I believe this would require a switch from a digijet to a digifant.) > How much would this cost? > Has any list member...
  • Re: Mysterious loose ground wire
    Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
    Tue, 24 May 2011 11:46:59 -0700
    I've seen ground wires in that general location on Digijet systems attached to the AFM. Jim -----Original Message----- From: neil n Sent: Tuesday...
  • Re: Tough driving(thin air)
    Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
    Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:57:52 -0500
    ...But the Digijet and Digifant injection systems operating as they do, they will compensate for the changing air density, by reducing the amount of...
  • Re: Engine power loss (need help)
    Historical mailing list - kevin obrien
    Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:23:25 -0700
    ...I > > have an '84 Westy Automatic 1.9L Digijet > Injection. > > > > Here are they symptoms: > > - Idles fine > > - Accelerates at about 1/2 of normal rate...
  • Re: that '89 Bluestar/Wolfsburg on ebay sold for $6100
    Historical mailing list - Ben T
    Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:34:30 EDT
    ...They got the higher compression 2.1 Digijet engines (112hp?) or 1.6 Turbodiesels. They only appear similar. Many came with ABS as well...
  • Re: advance mechanisms on digijet distributor?
    Historical mailing list - Damon Campbell
    Wed, 27 Apr 2005 07:49:32 -0700
    Jonathan, Thank you for the link - interesting read, and it did explain quite a bit. I need to look at how the vacuum hoses...
  • Euro-Drive: 84 Volkswagen vanagon, No-start
    Historical mailing list - "Roy Rush (by way of Derek Drew )"
    Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:44:21 -0500
    ...Trans: Automatic Mileage: 126,909 miles VIN: [No VIN available.] Fuel: digijet Symptoms: No Start ____________________________________________________________ This is my first volkswagen I've ever worked...
  • Upgrading Digijet to 3-Wire O2 Sensor
    Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
    Tue, 13 May 2003 10:49:37 -0400
    Anyone have a feel for the difference in warm-up time required for both the 1-wire versus the 3-wire O2 sensors? I...
  • Re: All 2 Speed Radiator Fans Use Internal Resistor?
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:24:17 -0500
    ...into my '81 so you'd think I >would know this but ..... > >In Bentley, I see that the diesel and Digijet fan motor have...
  • Re: Stalling at Idle when cold
    Historical mailing list - Hotch
    Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:29:02 +0000
    ...Stalling at Idle when cold >FWIW - >Let's try to remember that the Digijet Wasserboxer (83-85) uses an >Auxilary Air Valve. The Digifant...
  • Re: Pulsing Idle- Digijet
    Historical mailing list - Jerry Hart
    Sun, 7 Dec 1997 20:21:43 -0700
    Sam Scholten wrote: > > Hey volks, > > Great to be back. > > While my '84 is out of commission as I try to find out what thing...
  • Re: Top end problems, 2liter motor
    Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
    Sat, 23 Sep 2000 07:25:47 -0500
    ...If you use a vanagon digijet or Cal > vanagon L-jetronic air cooled ignition system it will put your timing more > where it needs...
  • Re: Friday Thoughts about Turboing a Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Kenneth Wilford
    Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:41:28 -0500
    ...that has the compression ratio of 7.6 and the HP Digijet ECU--wait, that is what I have.... How about adding a belt...
  • Re: Cold idle mystery
    Historical mailing list - Craig Oda
    Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:31:46 -0700
    ...ve gone through the Bently and done most of the electrical digijet > diagnostics (resistances of temp senders when cold and hot, etc.) > without finding...
  • Re: Engine stalling at high speed
    Historical mailing list - Tyler Hardison
    Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:20:12 -0700
    ...Engine stalling at high speed > >> > >> All the vans with Digijet should have the old style 1 or 2 switch setup, > >> depending on whether it...
  • Re: Fuel Injectors
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:58:29 -0700
    ...No cold start injector on waterboxers, 83 and up, with Digijet EFI. Generally ..air-cooled vanagons are dying out, lI'd say. Waterboxers are...
  • Re: more information on engine swap/fuel pump woes
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:06:04 -0700
    ...coil? > > Mark > > >> Jess, I have been running into issues with the digijet fuel injection >> harness lately in which the problems are caused by the...
  • Re: temp sensor !--ohm value
    Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
    Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:11:20 EDT
    John; John I think your on the wrong page! It appears you are looking at the digifant section, you want the digijet. Try page...
  • Vanagon Garage Sale Announcement
    Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
    Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:59:12 -0500
    ...2 Digijet ECU's both tested thoroughly propane type gas tank from Westy gasoline tank 2WD vanagon Brown curtains from a Westy. Rear hatch...
  • Re: 1.9 ECU wanted
    Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
    Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:57:09 -0700
    ...Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Wasserboxer Digijet or Digifant ECU's installed at the factory, just take a look-see in...
  • Re: Fwd: 1985 Vanagon - Replacing Engine
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:45:59 -0500
    ...85 should have a 1.9l waterboxer (flat 4) engine with Digijet fuel injection system. The ECU (Engine Control Unit) is a box about...
  • Re: WANTED: Pictures of Syncro engine compartment
    Historical mailing list - Chris S
    Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:08 -0400
    DJ-code is a European WBX with 112 hp and a DIGIJET ECU. The engine code is at the base of the oil breather...
  • Re: Replacing radiator Fan Thermo switch questions
    Historical mailing list - Dan N
    Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:08:31 -0700
    ...Meanwhile I am running a 2.1 > on Digijet & no AC, so not sure if that makes any difference! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On...
  • Re: 84 WB Coolant Light... More(U)
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 18 Jul 1996 18:13:12 PST
    ...the above test on 85 digijet system [I jotted down in my manual that the needle touches the first mark when the sender equals...
  • Re: Digitool diagnostics
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:47:16 -0500
    ...with (ideally) a *pair* of Digitool connectors, one set up for Digijet and one for Digifant. Using it would be like falling off a...
  • Re: Fuel Pressure Regulators
    Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
    Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:50:03 -0500
    ...Waser Boxers Vanagon pressure regulators, what are the > test > >pressures? > > AFC/Digijet/Digifant are all 2.5 bar (36 psi) higher than Manifold > Absolute...
  • Re: Oil Pressure Switch ....gone
    Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
    Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:26:23 -0500
    ...1 long block and intake > and exhaust systems..but still running Digijet. > > I assume you checked your oil level. > > I just went through a...
  • Re: Poor Hot Start Discovery - midway through solution
    Historical mailing list - neil n
    Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:09:17 -0700
    ...https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AQrHsssnpvM/T-0C3cqisxI/AAAAAAAAF38/f3FPZAq98as/s720/EVAP%2520Purge%2520Vacuum%2520Leak.jpg It seems that Digijet also has that same hose...
  • Re: RPM - was How much power can a stock FI make?
    Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
    Sun, 18 Nov 2001 05:48:33 +0000
    ...How much can my stock 1.9 fuel injection handle? <SNIP> You wrote, among many other interesting things - >>>>>>>>>>>> The Digijet fuel injection system is...
  • Re: 1985 Digijet Surging at idle (AFM?)
    Historical mailing list - developtrust
    Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:57:51 -0800
    As long as you have that AFM apart why not do the AFM upgrade with that $1 capacitor. That will certainly help overall performance...
  • Hot Cat
    Historical mailing list - Paul
    Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:01:57 -0800
    ...Any insight will be greatly appreciated, oh yea it's a digijet. 1.9L waterboxer. TIA, Paul
  • Re: ECU firmware location
    Historical mailing list - tinker man
    Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:27:20 +0200
    ...anybody know if the firmware for our ECU's (Digifant or Digijet) > > resides completely on the 2732 EPROM or is part of it contained...
  • Vs: Message from Denmark
    Historical mailing list - Rensbro
    Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:00:36 +0200
    ...Dear mister Gerry I am a Danish owner of an original American California Volkswagen Vanagon GL, 1,9 digijet, MPV, blue, model 1984. I...
  • Re: 2.1/1.9 mix
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:03:47 -0700
    ...The core, starter, and throttle body are of > the 2.1 variety, but I used the coolant system, exhaust, and Digijet system > from the...
  • Re: CIS warm-up regulator
    Historical mailing list - David Marshall
    Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:25:47 -0800
    ...is it worn out, or not? > >Thanks, > >John Hung >Auburn, AL >'84 Vanagon GL (digijet) >'84 Audi 5000s (CIS) >'86 BMW 325 (motronic) > > -- David...