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• Re: how hot
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:24:16 -0400
  ...You might think about getting one of Darrel Boehler's Digifant tools. That way you can cross check the gauge with the readout from...
• Re: Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:04:00 -0700
  ...when I got the parts from Techtonic > Tuning to bolt my Digifant 8 valve head onto an ABA block. Tough little > pins, those. -- Neil...
• Re: WBX Digifant Ground Check. No Continuity Between Some Points.
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sat, 9 Jun 2012 12:54:48 -0700
  Ah. Right. Assumed subject line was sufficient. This is for a stock 2.1 WBX in a 1988 Canadian model Westy eh? ;) Neil. On...
• Re: Eurospec Conversion: Digifant Comment
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:38:36 -0700
  Advance (clock wise) = more bottom end. Currently playing with this on my 2.0L Rabbit PU. At 18:45 7/29/98 -0700, Austin...
• Re: Anyone installed a subwoofer?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 03:34:42 EST
  ...area, so no impact on storage volume. '82 Diesel Westphalia converted to 1.8 L 8V GTI Digifant. Hope this helps someone, Frank Grunthaner
• Re: Phone list?
  Historical mailing list - Michael aka ECHO
  Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:40:33 -0800
  ...have some details on > > what they are particularly good at (eg. Digifant FI) > > Bad idea! > Then we would have a gold rush to that...
• Re: Diesel Power
  Historical mailing list - Tromper
  Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:58:01 -0700
  ...to upgrade, but alas until just after the gnomes installed the digifant I could not find one. JT Tromper 1982 Dieselfant II "The Manatee...
• Re: D'Oh! Broke My Vanagon!
  Historical mailing list - Mark Baker
  Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:31:55 -0800
  The engine is the 2.1 L Digifant. John Meeks <vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:On 11/1/05, Mark Baker <mr_dogpants@yahoo.com...
• Re: flooding digifant
  Historical mailing list - Joe Beckham
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:04:16 -0800
  ...flooding digifant The problem is getting worse. About three or four months ago, Smoky refused to start. This was most unusual because he usually...
• PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!! Das Bot just quit on me!! Fuel starvation or fried Digifant?? HELP!!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Hall
  Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:08:37 -0600
  ...Would some starting fluid help or is that not needed? Beyond that, how could I have fried my Digifant doing a procedure I have...
• Re: Tom Hanks and Letterman
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:07:55 -0700
  ...will gyclerin actually protect our rubber, which is better, digijet or digifant? Vitrifrigo or Dometic? Propex or Suburban, etc??? Walmart batteries or Sears? Hakkapelittas...
• blinking coolant light...
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:58:07 -0400
  ...It's not also hooked to some temp sensor, right? My coolant temp gauge and my Digifant tool tells me the temp II sensor...
• : Re: Tag an SUV today
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 26 Dec 2000 20:00:23 -0700
  ...By today's standards (OBD II), digifant/digijet is very dirty. Modern vehicles pollute much less than vehicles of 15 years ago. The vanagon...
• Re: Cold start issue
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:08:25 -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...
• Re: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:12:15 -0700
  ...Keep the digijet wiring and put the digifant intake. Did you use the 2.1 Tbody, too? I'm trying to think about what...
• Re: US Vanagons vs European (Horsepower)
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:57:30 +0200
  ...This engine uses the Digifant injection, with a catalytic converter. It makes 95 hp @ 4800 rpm, and 160 Nm @ 2800 rpm and has a...
• Fw: necesito acesoria
  Historical mailing list - Darrell Boehler
  Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:16:37 -0600
  ...Ayudeme por favor, indicandome, los puntos que debo revisar y sus ecificaciones, y recomendandome algun buen libro sobre fuel inyection para los sistemas digifant...
• Re: Digifant Electrical Experts: New Harness + 4 Pin Hella 53 Relay for ECU?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 28 May 2012 19:00:05 -0700
  ...in that ECU/FP relay part of the >> 88/89 Bentley Digifant diagrams, with connections shown wrong. Second, >> the change to the more complex...
• Re: Looking for some Vanagon wiring harness parts
  Historical mailing list - gburgin
  Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:30:51 -0400
  ...wrote: > > Right now I am looking for some parts of the digifant wiring harness. We > need the ECU plugs and also the plug for...
• Re: Digifant Hall Sender Question
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:08:53 -0700
  On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Sam Bateman wrote: > I have broken the plastic connector on the Hall Sender unit on my '87 Vanagon > (don...
• Re: 10 year anniversary
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:10:36 -0700
  ...Congratulations! A notable mark! Many more happy revolutions! How sweet that >experience flys in the face of wisdom (obscure tranny and digifant comment). > >Frank > > >
• adapter found for mounting K&N cone filter or hose to Vanagons Digi AFM
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:13:39 EST
  ...its the same adapter used for the Neuspeed/Eurosport P-flo/Cool flo intake systems for the '88-93 digifant golf/jetta/cabby..but...
• Re: Step up the idle
  Historical mailing list - BenT Syncro
  Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:05:38 -0700
  ...sure what engine management system you have but I thought the Digifant ECU did all the idle compensatiing for the AC and PS. True...
• Re: Engine thoughts--now Go Westy engine management system
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:37:12 -0800
  ...Plenty of people have put 2.1 engines in their early vans and swapped in the digifant system with it. It's generally accepted...
• Re: Baseline readings for Digitool Diagnostics?
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:31:24 -0500
  ...Mine is the Digijet version so the readings may not match perfectly to your later model Digifant. I asked basically the same question about...
• Gas Mileage: Observations.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:50:11 -0700
  My Digifant VW inline four (ABA from a 92/93 Jetta) again has an operative Oxygen sensor working with the Digifant engine management system...
• Re: engine I4 swap done, get more power????
  Historical mailing list - BRENT CHRISTENSEN
  Mon, 22 May 2000 14:20:41 -0700
  ...Zezoff wrote: > >The diesel is gone and a beautiful 92 cabriolet digifant > motor with 102k is > >in its place. > >I have the diesel tranny...
• HCBF 2013 Trip Report
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:39:10 -0400
  ...Happy Trails, Greg Potts Toronto, Ontario Canada 197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato" 1988 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop - Inline 4 2L 8V Digifant www.pottsfamily.ca...
• Re: Wanted: Digijet idle controller
  Historical mailing list - John Lane
  Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:04:58 -0700
  ...Does the same thing as the Digifant system. John Lane 83.5 Westy Iron Butterfly Perkiomenville, PA ----- Original Message ---- From: ------------- <VW4X4@VERIZON.NET> To...
• Re: Service Bulletin for AFMs and harness
  Historical mailing list - yahi
  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 16:48:20 -0800
  ...Here is a copy and it applies to all watercooled Vanagons, not just the Digifant ones (there is an updated bulletin no.92-02...
• Re: Soliciting VW Engine Recommendations
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:13:12 -0800
  ...Digijet and Digifant waterboxer EFI systems are both fine. Each has advantages the other system doesn't have. They're both good. On 1...
• Re: nominal digitool readings (digifant)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Finkbiner
  Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:22:43 -0000
  ...On my '87 digifant system, the temp 2 drops to as low as .08 when very warm, but generally seems to run about .10...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:48:26 -0500
  ...this book does not match vanagons exactly. > it's a 'digifant' manual. > Digifant Vanagons ( 2.1 wbxr engine ) use one 'large silver can fuel...
• Re: 1990 2.1L Digijet European Caravelle wiring diagrams
  Historical mailing list - T.M.
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:01:57 -0400
  ...1990 Digijet is some weird combination of the US Digijet and Digifant models - It has a Digijet ECU, whereas the ECU is responsible only...
• Re: Eurospec problem
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:49:24 -0700
  People have slammed me for dissing Digifant II in the past. My problems with Digifant II were always hot weather realated. There could be...
• Re: Webber conversion input
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:35:35 -0800
  ...didn't apply, I'd ditch my Vanagon's mighty fine Digifant FI, too... OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Technology and...
• Interesting item on eBay web site item#74196192: 1986 V.W. Vanagon F.I. Computer
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 8 Mar 1999 09:28:53 -0800
  ...1986 Vanagon Fuel Injection computer for Bosch Digifant fuel injection system. Bosch part # 0 261 200 284 . V.W. part # 025 906 022 D...
• Re: Deeply Saddened and Troubled
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:06:52 -0700
  Frank, I appreciated/agreed with the piece you wrote which you refer to (I'd love to find a torque curve for the digifant2...
• 2 vanagons, 1 jumpseat, 1 computer, For Sale
  Historical mailing list - frank hammontree
  Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:51:07 -0500
  2 vanagons, 1 jumpseat, 1 digifant computer (Bosch # 0 261 200 065) 1982 vanagon westy with 1.8 jetta conversion lots of good parts...
• Re: Engine Conversion MPG Question
  Historical mailing list - Weibel, Pius
  Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:44:34 -0500
  ...Engine is a 1.8L Jetta Digifant II. Pius 85/95 vanajetta westy -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com...
• Full Throttle AC Cutout?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 27 May 2007 10:33:05 -0700
  ...Of course, since the Digifant full throttle switch does double duty as the "no throttle" switch, it wouldn't work to just scab onto...
• Re: Fuel Filters vs Fuel Strainers
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:30:52 -0700
  ...a strainer as > you would > be led to believe by that Digifant Book. VW 133 133 511. This was > used as > the ONLY filter...
• Re: Engine stops running at red lights
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:02:45 -0500
  ...Its purpose is to inform the engine management computer (Digifant ECU) that the engine at idle (it also makes contact at full throttle but...
• Ok...still running rich problem....
  Historical mailing list - jesse johnson
  Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:18:10 -0500
  Hey all, I am still having problems of a rich running condition on my digifant fuel injection. These are the things i have tried...
• Re: Engine died, ecu quick look
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:09:02 -0700
  For what it's worth, here's some images of Digifant ECU from my 1988 WBX 2.1 It worked fine. I see at...
• Re: Why not CIS? RE: Images of South African van on website
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:57:47 -0800
  ...I've always considered the Digifant to be about the perfect level of complexity: two temp sensors, an O2 sensor, and an airflow meter...
• Re: Charcoal Cannister Purpose
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:31:31 -0400
  At 08:52 PM 10/26/2009, neil n wrote: >Bentley shows air cooled, Digijet, and Digifant, charcoal canister >bottom hose connecting to the...
• AFM
  Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
  Sat, 1 May 1999 12:16:56 -0400
  ...The FrankenWesty was a diesel that was converted to 1.8 I-4 power with a Vanagon Digifant injection set up. Not quite what...
• Looking for a couple of ECUs
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:37:22 EDT
  ...It is a Digifant II and was only used in these two years for some reason. Part number is 037 906 022 CF. Known...
• Need several parts for SA trip
  Historical mailing list - Don & Sue Welch
  Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:43:53 -0700
  ...our 1991 Vanagon GL Westy (2WD) to help our endeavour: 1. Digifant computer... (ECU..?) 2. At least two injectors... 3. A distributor.... I know...
• 3rd stage cooling fan relay (for a/c)
  Historical mailing list - Damian Shaw
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:50:56 -0600
  ...For Digifant Vanagons (and probably others) there is a 3rd stage cooling fan relay used with the a/c system. (Vans without a/c...
• Re: Boston Bob Engine - Follow Up
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sat, 11 Aug 2001 19:20:10 EDT
  ...On my 8V 1.8L inline 4 (RV) Digifant engine, I maintain an idle speed of 700 rpm and hold a sea level vacuum...
• Hall Sensor TEst 2.1L
  Historical mailing list - Sidney White
  Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:28:11 EDT
  On Digifant the Bentley test # 28.43 refers to using a US1115 voltmeter( not a multimeter). The test says if LED flickers, hall sender...
• Re: 2.1 in my '84 with digijet
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 24 May 2007 21:37:19 -0700
  ...set the timing at 5 degrees > BTDC like the 2.1 digifant setup? Thanks > Pascal > '84Westy > -- Jim Thompson 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria" 84...
• Re: Question about temp II sensor and bad running
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:04:31 -0400
  ...Does anyone use this? Here's where I read about it (link below) it's a page about Digifant "tune ups" mostly specific to...
• Re: O2 Sensor Idea (long)
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:50:28 -0500
  ...The digifant models go into closed loop much sooner than the others which are mostly digijet. The digifant has a heated o2 sensor. So...
• 1.8t motor confirm my suspicions
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 1 Jun 2017 09:27:28 -0700
  ...I have a couple of used motors in the shop, old 1.8 digifant and a 2.0 aba (also have a 2.5...
• Dashboard lights
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:20:24 -0800
  ...It is a 1986 Digifant - Syncro Westy...I can't seem to find my Bentley which sort of sucks at the moment. Thanks, Bruce
• Re: Pig Tail for early vans?
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:00:53 -0600
  ...talking about the AFM Fix, then it applies equally to the > Digifant and the Digijet.  They are electrically the same and prone to > the...
• Re Turbo Muffler, Jacobs ignition, don't work
  Historical mailing list - Modl6971
  Thu, 30 Apr 1998 02:12:43 EDT
  ...Say what??? With the variables that we all see from our digifant FI, which is often providing a marginal mixture, you think that a...