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• Re: Digifant Fuel System Troubleshooting Experience
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Mon, 11 May 2009 21:03:30 -0700
  On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Dave Arthur <dave.arthur@nscc.ca> wrote: > > I replaced the relay and connected the pump...
• '97 for sale, continued
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 04 Jan 1995 15:43:05 -0800 (PST)
  ...Bonus points for new registration, higher horsepower engine (can't remeber is it the digifant or digijet?). In CA you have to sell with...
• Re: Techron Saved My Tush (Was:Bus Bummed By Bad Gas)
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 17 Nov 95 07:41:42 CST
  On Fri, 17 Nov 1995 07:34:20 -0600 Steve Hoge said: >Anybody out there run Techron regularly through their Digifant or Digijet FI...
• Re: VANAGON digest 674
  Historical mailing list - Peter Orban
  Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:50 EST
  ...I get the right sensor and am I just blind? > The digifant ECUs have a self test built in them, at least for the...
• Re: cold start problems??
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:27:32 -0700
  ...normal. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > oh, he's got a 1986 digifant, 2.1 liter. > > Ch > '89 SyncroBeast Vanagon > '87 16V GTI > '80 850...
• Re: DISTRIBUTOR, INSTALLING
  Historical mailing list - Fred Younger
  Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:33:49 -0600
  Scott Hall wrote: > > Howdy Volks, > I finally got the new distributor in for "Das Boot." She is a 1986 Westy with > Digifant injection. I...
• Re: black box above coil
  Historical mailing list - Sylvie et Germain
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:52:22 -0400
  ...The Power Supply Relay provides battery voltage to the Digifant E.C.U. The Fuel Pump Relay provides battery voltage to the fuel pump...
• FS: 87 Vanagon GL near SF $700
  Historical mailing list - Ben T
  Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:56:31 EST
  ...2.1 Digifant engine. Gary exterior with gray velour 7-passenger interior. Cracked front windshield. Oh did I say it runs OK and all...
• Fuel pumps
  Historical mailing list - Niall Mac Caughey
  Fri, 12 May 2006 13:03:39 +0100
  ...The Digijet/Digifant systems operate at 1.1 bar. A Golf pump would bust the plumbing on a Vanagon. Unfortunately prices are down to...
• Electrical connection prep.
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:49:26 -0700
  ...I think Vw even mentions it somewhere in a digifant tech bulletin. Remember when it also was touted by those audiophile types? :-) Alistair
• Re: Speaking of idle stabilizers ...
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:02:26 -0700
  ...I'd have to bust out my Digifant pro manual, but IIRC, isn't there a current check one can do? Neil. On Wed...
• Re: Throttle Body Question
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:06:01 -0400
  ...The fuel system is Digifant. The throttle body lays transverse over the engine. From the Right hand side of the firewall, through a hole...
• Another "Pro" tech nees help
  Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
  Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:45:18 -0800
  ...Any digifant experts want to take a stab at it? Please reply to Walter, not me! Jim Arnott WetWesties Union, OR 1987 Volkswagen Vanagon...
• Re: What voltage do injectors need to fire?
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:11:00 -0400
  ...What voltage do injectors need to fire? > >With the Digifant system, does anyone know what >voltage the ECU sends to the injectors to get...
• Re: Distributor Shaft Pin
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 8 Jun 2017 19:37:29 -0700
  ...kit" to put an ABA-compatable drive gear on my own Digifant distributor.... I marked the timing gears, shafts, pulleys etc on both motors...
• Product
  Historical mailing list - Robert W. Kelly
  Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:07:53 -0800
  ...1982 VW Camper /1992 GTI 1.8lt Digifant conv.
• Re: Latest news on No Spark
  Historical mailing list - Mark Ingalls
  Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:06:40 -0500
  ...Now before I go and purchase that, are there any other suggestions for what the no spark syndrome could be? I have the digifant...
• On the essential utility of the Bentley
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 01:18:50 EDT
  ...Collection of shop notes at best! Just as a further example, the Digifant I and II discussions in the VW Pro Training Books (I...
• Ful Injector Pintle caps (hats) needed ASAP, where to get?
  Historical mailing list - Mike Ray
  Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:49:57 -0800
  ...I dropped one of my digifant Bosch fuel injectors this morning. I broke the plastic. Life is not good. I checked with a few...
• Re: Won't Start - Advise needed
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Sun, 19 Jun 2005 17:31:03 -0400
  ...On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:57:17 -0700, Jeff Gilbert <jeffnjen@JEFFNJEN.COM> wrote: >Hi, > >My digifant wont start. Plenty of juice, starter...
• idle problem - fixed
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 16 May 2005 16:22:49 -0700
  Hi, of interest to I4 owners, esp Digifant... I fixed a nagging idle problem that started a couple of weeks ago. The symptoms were...
• Re: While were talking mixture
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:20:40 -0400
  ...While were talking mixture I know when the Digifant system is in the warm-up cycle that, just like the carb models with chokes...
• Re: Another question about O2 sensors..
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:49:00 -0700
  ...But yours is a 49-state model, according to the 15+ different inline 4 Digifant wiring diagrams I checked before replying. And yes, the...
• Re: Carb vs. FI in Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:26:00 -0400 (EDT)
  ...required? Also, what would be involved in converting my 2.1 digifant to carburation? What sources of info are there? What would be the...
• Re: trying some new timing settings...
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 30 Jan 1997 17:46:11 -0800
  ...20 degrees or so to the left on my 2.1L digifant engine. Not sure if this is the same as on the 1...
• Re: 87 No Start,check this
  Historical mailing list - David Bayer
  Sun, 3 May 1998 11:10:23 -0700
  ...the 15 power curcuit to >| the coil wich goes to your digifant relay and then your fuel pump relay. Also check the connector coming...
• Re: magic harness question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Harrnacker
  Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:05:35 -0700
  I had something similar to this happen to my 91 Golf (Digifant). Unfortunate it turned out the be the ECU (main computer). Ouch...$750...
• Re: Problem, New Rebuilt Engine, Running Rich, What's Wrong?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:23:35 -0400
  ...Use the > Digifant 1 > section. > > D > > > On 19/07/09 11:57 PM, "Robert Stewart" <robertmstewart@MAC.COM> wrote: > >> So what about the Oxygen...
• Bucko update
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:32:52 -0800
  ...Since the AFM syndrome affects WBX Digifant and well as 88-92 Golf-Jetta Digifant 2, this may be of some interest to you...
• Slight stumble on "resume throttle" (Digifant EFI van)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:07:49 -0800
  ...This is a Digifant system on an inline VW gas motor (2.0 block). I've heard mention of a " throttle=stop switch" or...
• Re: K&N Cone filters Cold Air Intake for vanagon-eliminate factory airbox
  Historical mailing list - P.Dooley
  Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:57:45 -0500
  ...I'm gonna do this mod on my rabbit powered vanagon, as the digifant FI from the Jetta uses the same airbox, which fits...
• Re: Stopped in Moro... fuel?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:39:53 +0000
  ...Riding along in the rain, 84 Digifant vanagon with an ABA inline gas motor, started missing. Key cycling has no "reset"...all gauges normal...
• Re: Black Vapor and Rattle. And other stuff.
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Sat, 8 Nov 2014 08:04:01 -0800
  ...My Digifant engine has begun to occasionally idle very low, like just above dying...this began after an O2 sensor swap from a heated...
• Re: 83 h20 fuel injection problem
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:36:57 +0000
  ...I believe they're available now, right Darrell? I have the Digifant tool and you can tell with a glance whether the coil, starter...
• Re: Rough Idle / motor mounts
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:31:49 -0400
  ...And to me it seems the Digifant 2.1 seems top me much more prone, expecially to the "squeak" than the 1.9 vans...
• No Juice to ECU -87
  Historical mailing list - van man
  Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:46:09 -0800
  sorry - its an 87 syncro digifant. thanks for the quick replys im checkin it out now. Folks, The van wouldn't start out of...
• Re: 025 906 021 C 1.9 ECU question
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:20:04 -0400
  ...Any Vanagon 022 ECU will work in a 2.1l Vanagon digifant. > Believe me I have tried every combination you can imagine over the...
• Re: Another coil fire
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:14:30 -0700
  The coil on the type RV Digifant2 engine I just bought had a secondary resistance of 7500 ohms...more than double what it ought...
• Re: 3rd stage cooling fan relay (for a/c)
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:47:13 -0400
  ...At 04:50 PM 4/17/2001, Damian Shaw wrote: >For Digifant Vanagons (and probably others) there is a 3rd stage cooling >fan relay...
• It works again
  Historical mailing list - Jack Pronovost
  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:29:52 -0800
  ...Diagnosed to the digifant fuel injection system. decided to replace one part at the time and see if it was cured. First ignition wires...
• Re: The end of the road (86 westy runnin' rich)
  Historical mailing list - Jfp w/2 WBXs
  Tue, 22 Oct 2002 02:56:37 +0000
  Hi John, Has anyone performed a typical pin-by-pin check of the 25 pin Digifant Control Module(DCM)? If the mixture is incorrect...
• re. turboing a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Gary Lee
  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:25:29 -0700
  ...I don't think it can be beefed up enough either. - Digifant, Digijet, CIS, none of them will provide enough fuel under boost. You...
• Re: Billy Bones death rattle?
  Historical mailing list - Warren.K.Lail-1
  Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:30:27 -0600
  ...the complete manual go to this page: > <" target="l">http://www.loam.org/vw/Vanagon/> > > Just look there at the bottom under DigiFant. > > Ryan >
• Re: Another call for dead ECUs
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:52:39 -0600
  ...wondering if there were any dead ECUs floating >around out there? Digifant, Digijet... i don't really >care, but i want to rip the...
• Re: Van idle over winter
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Sun, 22 May 2011 08:38:34 -0700
  Perhaps it is dependent on make & model - I have a 2.1 digifant. At the bottom of the air intake - (the suction pipe which...
• Re: ECU firmware location
  Historical mailing list - David Kao
  Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:22:00 -0700
  ...but does > anybody know if the firmware for our ECU's (Digifant or Digijet) > resides completely on the 2732 EPROM or is part of...
• Re: Regarding an implant of the 1.8liter inline four...From the thread off the digest..
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:42:02 -0700
  ...s are at any given > speed because I still have yet to get my tach > working since I switched from Digifant 2 to > Motronic. >..............
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome/AFM Mounting Orientation?
  Historical mailing list - Alex MeVay
  Fri, 7 Feb 2020 09:40:33 -0800
  ...Does Digifant II have any long-term learning/adaptation to the fuel map? When I replaced the AFM in 2018 and did the idle...
• Re: Vanagon Head Leaking Around The Head Nut(S)
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:27:05 -0500
  ...If you use the 1.8 lite > motor with Digifant engine management you don't have to mess with much at > all...Everything is...
• Re: purchase advice sought
  Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
  Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:56:22 -0700
  ...Regarding the engine, it has the 1.9 Digijet engine as opposed to the 2.1 Digifant in 86 and newer Vanagons. I have...
• Re: Anyone seen Gowesty's Digifiant replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:15:50 -0400
  ...I will be looking at Megasquirt options in the near future. Digifant II on my ABA conversion is reliable, but I am looking to...
• Engine Damage, please help
  Historical mailing list - Trent Meyer
  Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:58:52 -0700
  Hi, Can anyone shed some light on what kind of engine damage could be done to a 2.1 liter Digifant Wasserboxer (syncro)if...
• 022D Digifant Upgrade Chip Performance Report...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:56:57 EDT
  Well, I have had the chip in now for about 250 miles. Power and Mileage have improved. It should get better as a learn...
• duel fuel westy, LPG/propane or gasoline
  Historical mailing list - Gary
  Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:55:19 -0600
  ...Its a duel fuel system so the original digifant is still in place and functional. You just flip an electrical switch on the dash...
• Cutting out
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 03:44:07 EDT
  ...My engine management system is Digifant ll, which is 88-92 Jetta-Golf (I have an I-4) The 1.9 WBX has a...
• Re: Tiico convert question
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:36:33 EST
  ...what the tach read!! Dave B >> Well, on my '90 GTi Digifant II 1.8 L 8V conversion in a '82 Westfalia and original...
• Fuel filters
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:54:54 -0400
  ...20.16 - 20.17 and 20.18, but there for the Digifant, there are two filters shown, the standard small plastic one before the...
• Re: Fast Forward's "undercover" TDI project for the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:04:06 -0800
  ...There is more to this installation than lowering the engine slightly! The TDI isn't any shorter than a Digifant II engine. If you...
• Re: GoWesty 2.4 L Engine
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:50:35 -0400
  ...Mixing and matching components is not plug-and-play going between digifant and digijet. I've been lurking on the Bostig google group for...
• Re: Continued Bucking - Digifant readings
  Historical mailing list - Ed DeBolt
  Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:26:13 -0800
  ...Continued Bucking - Digifant readings >At 04:52 PM 1/20/2002, van man wrote: >>Throttle switch led and Fi led work correctly when >>idling...