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• Re: vanagon Digest - 10 Sep 2015 to 11 Sep 2015 - Special issue (#2015-319)
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Sun, 13 Sep 2015 12:37:23 -0300
  ...IMHO money and time is better spent on keeping stock FI system going. > > Chris. > > Wysłane z iPhone'a > > Dnia 12 wrz 2015 o godz...
• Re: What's the diff ?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 3 May 2002 20:19:23 -0400
  ...The 2.1l motor uses digifant I which is a simplified Bosch Motronic system -- it's similar to digijet except that it also directly...
• Re: Distributor?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:53:57 -0400
  ...So I Loren, the 2.1l (Digifant) system does all that in the ECU. The distributor has a rigid shaft, no centrifugal or anything...
• Re: Advice on Spare 2.1
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 6 May 2010 17:01:14 -0700
  ...a Digijet system... 2.1 engine, complete 2.1 exhuast and intake .....and love it . I like it better than Digifant even. Scott www...
• 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: 1.9 to 2.1 conversion question
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:02:21 -0400
  ...I installed the entire 2.1 intake system ... from snorkel in the D pillar to the intake runners and I plugged the Digifant AFM...
• Re: Westy mechanical training.....
  Historical mailing list - Tom
  Sat, 7 Sep 2002 11:56:01 -0700
  ...1) Filling and bleeding the coolant system (Bill Kasper a natural for this) 2) Digifant system - Where everything is located 3) Bypassing sensors in...
• Re: Digifant question...fuel pump effect?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( Scott Daniel Foss )
  Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:33:58 -1000
  ...But is >>> it possible the noisy pump was making the engine run less perfect? >>> I should know, but how does the digifant fueling system...
• Re: checking coil and icu?
  Historical mailing list - Jfp w/2 wbxs
  Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:02:41 +0000
  Hi Matt, My experience is based on the Digifant 2.1L system but all breakerless systems work similarly. Using a quality DVOM: Check the...
• Re: Overcooling Hypothesis--Long
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:07:30 -0700
  ...engine control system, the fuel would not be cut off when coolant is below a set temperature (say 160F). But Digifant is relatively primitive...
• FS: Complete Digifant Setup
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:52:04 -0400
  ...The entire system saw 4000 miles more service on my 2.2liter air cooled engine after removal but nothing was modified. However the air...
• More adjusting mixture without gas analyzer
  Historical mailing list - Dan Hall
  Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:55:59 EDT
  I failed to provide enough information about my system which resulted in getting conflicting advice regarding which direction to turn the screw to lean...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Tue, 12 Nov 2013 19:36:35 -0800
  ...http://playground.arduino.cc//Main/InterfacingWithHardware#Magnetic_Hall My Digifant pro manual shows that the IS unit uses input from the distributor hall. My...
• Re: Arduino and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Brett Ne
  Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:27:39 -0800
  ...of the Bosch > Digifant Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI) parts that came in all 1986-91 > Vanagons. We have fifteen systems running, and have a...
• Tinkering with the Digifant Fuel Injection to make it better...
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:46:42 EDT
  ...system is set to read micro voltages and changing a setting might put it beyond the range for the sensor and the Digifant ignores...
• Re: more trouble with Billy
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:42:52 -0500
  ...they used the digifant system and the treatment of the digifant system in the golf manual is MUCH better than the treatment in the...
• Re: Need AFM adapter so different aircleaner or cold air intake can be used
  Historical mailing list - pdooley
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:30:55 -0500
  The Merkur XR4Ti (funky German Ford) uses the same basic air meter as Digifant. The difference is the Merkur unit has a round outlet...
• Re: Isolating an idle problem?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:42:35 -0800
  ...The idle control valve, that humming vibrating item in the intake system is very similar between the digifant i4 and the wbx. As to...
• 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
  ...For max power, a batch fire system is just as good as sequential.
• 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...
• Re: Digifant, barometers, and the AFM
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:45:18 -0800
  ...the Bosch publication on the KE-Jetronic system (CIS-motronic, caveat - no AFM as in Digifant, but does ahave a sensor plate which measures...
• Re: Eurospec problems
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:49:31 -0700
  ...I even do this with CIS-E systems that usually control the fuel pump in the same manner as the Digifant II ECUs do...
• Re: 2.0 ABA inline gas Vanagon. how it works
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Berg
  Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:52:28 -0400
  ...and keep the cross-flow head. > > So there is an inline digifant system. �Hints on what vehicles used it? > > Jim > > On Oct 20, 2010...
• Re: Vanagon Acceleration Times
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:22:31 -0700
  ...By way of > reminder, My Westfalia is an 1982 former diesel, running a 1.8L 8V Digifant > II engine from a 1990 GTi with...
• Fuel pressure regulator question?
  Historical mailing list - John Andrew
  Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:49:34 -0600
  ...pressure regulator for the digifant system. There is no mention of that being a failure in the digijet system. I know that the pressure...
• 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: '84 WBX: H pipe broke..questions
  Historical mailing list - George Goff
  Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:05:57 EDT
  ...You reduced the number of parts involved. (The Digifant system works like this) . . . . . . Drink a beer in celebrition for me! >> Ken, my man, I...
• Re: Volkswagen Vanagon/Type II Fuel Systems Pro Manual
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:32:47 -0400
  ...manual complete in electronic format? I have a > PDF of the Digifant portion, but AFC and Digijet have been left out. > Finding > the dead...
• Re: Digifant question...fuel pump effect?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:07:19 -0700
  ...But is > it possible the noisy pump was making the engine run less perfect? > I should know, but how does the digifant fueling system...
• Re: 2.0 ABA inline gas Vanagon. how it works
  Historical mailing list - Jim
  Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:16:42 -0700
  ...So there is an inline digifant system. Hints on what vehicles used it? Jim On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Scott Daniel...
• Re: 1.9 VS. 2.1-worth upgrading?
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 4 Jun 2003 00:26:38 -0400
  ...I installed the Digifant system and the entire 2.1l cooling system. I live in Phoenix, and have a lot of high speed straight...
• Re: 1.6L NA d- finding TDC & injection pump q
  Historical mailing list - Dana Morphew
  Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:01:07 -0800
  ...the Digifant 2, RV engine, that I am going to install into the Vanagon, on my mind. -Dana- > The one belt system is not...
• Looking for Digijet Manual
  Historical mailing list - Blake Heinlein
  Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:41:57 -0400
  Morning all! I have an '84 Westy and I'm looking for a Digijet Fuel and Ignition Control System Manual. I would love to...
• Digifant electrical/fuel problem; kinda long.
  Historical mailing list - Dave
  Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:32:12 -0500
  I have an 87 Vanagon 2.1 (digifant) and need some help with the fuel/electrical system. I have been able to further isolate...
• Re: 90 V'gon bad gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:24:16 -0400
  ...cooling system after that. Part is pretty cheap as I recall (around $10 maybe?). Mine's getting flaky again according to the Digifant tool...
• Re: ECU reset, O2 voltage stability
  Historical mailing list - jon
  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:41:12 -0800
  ...is a Diesel VW guy that got somehow interested in the Digifant system) On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Mike Frost wrote: > FWIW, several threads...
• =?utf-8?Q?Re=3A_Are_all_2.1_engines_digifant=3F?=
  Historical mailing list - Mike Holm Toronto
  Mon, 5 May 2014 06:00:03 -0400
  ...The ownerkeeps the Digijet system adapting it to the 2.1 This may be true theother way around (1.9 with Digifant) but far...
• Re: Vanagon and VW Rabbit
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Wed, 9 Jan 2019 13:52:03 -0800
  ...Thankfully > the Vanagons used the Digijet and Digifant systems which are electronic. > These CIS systems were very ingenious in the way they controlled fuel...
• Re: Air vs. Water - pro's and con's
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:00:38 -0400
  At 21:48 8/5/2000, John wrote: >Lastly, and I'm no expert here, Digifant is a true digital >processor(like BMW Motronic...
• Re: Ignition coil failure
  Historical mailing list - John
  Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:51:28 -0400
  ...writes: > >Has anyone experienced ignition coil failure on a 2.1L Digifant > >system? > >I've had two on two different vehicles. Initially the engine...
• 1.9 to 2.1 wbx swap questions
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:00:33 -0400
  ...I am trying to decide whether to use the Digijet or the Digifant fuel system, also the old 1.9 cooling hose setup or...
• Re: Are all 2.1 engines digifant?
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 4 May 2014 13:25:06 -0500
  ...I disconnected that system and it runs and idles fine without it for general operations. And I simply don't use it any more...
• Re: Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:46:53 -0700
  ...a living, the injection system never was an issue requiring further investigation. I've never had a problem with Digifant...or L-Jet for...
• Re: AFM operation query was Re: MAF Sensors and the Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:15:30 -0800
  ...Very clever device and system. it seems to me.............to get a useful input on a digifant ECU from an air mass meter.. there...
• fast idle when cold - 1988 Digifant
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:44:04 -0400
  ...The digifant FI system it's wearing now came with the vanagon, and was transplanted off the original engine after the PO blew two...
• Re: Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:15:21 -0700
  ...If you > spend much time in traffic or light cruise, this may be a good upgrade. > > For max power, a batch fire system is...
• Re: Euro-spec Digifant ECU?
  Historical mailing list - Bob Donalds
  Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:35:53 -0400
  ...Euro-spec Digifant ECU? > Is the only difference in the eurospec ECU the ROM chip with the programming? > > If so, I wonder why nobody...
• Re: Conversion Options
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Mon, 4 May 1998 20:11:31 -0500
  ...Digifant to run the 2.1, this is where you may need some help, that is moving from one EFI system to Digifant as...
• Re: Digifart MAF question
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:27:57 -0400
  ...just to add some clarification to the orginal post the Digifant II system does not use a MAF (mass air flow sensor). it uses...
• Re: A desire to learn more
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 10 Aug 1999 14:26:29 -0400
  ...If you have the 2.1l the Digifant is a simplified Bosch Motronic. david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net
• Darrell Boehler's digifant tool
  Historical mailing list - William Dummitt
  Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:07:15 -0400
  Darrell has posted several notes to the list about his tool for troubleshooting the digifant fi system. Basically, what Darrell does is solder a...
• Installing digifant injection on an older model vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:20:36 -0500
  ...components in my existing system. Mainly, the AFM is shot, and it's far cheaper to get a new digifant AFM than a new...
• Re: want to buy a fox, (no on the Fox, BUY,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Quijano
  Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:17:43 -0400
  ...stick with Digifant, 89 or newer. It's a very simple fuel injection system and they run smoother than the CIS cars. I have...
• Re: Fuel Lines/Hose Clamps
  Historical mailing list - Tim Hannink
  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:22:48 -0500
  Fuel pressure for Digifant Injection System Ref: Bentley 24-55 approx. 2.0 bar (29 psi) with vacuum hose on pressure regulator connected approx...
• While were talking mixture
  Historical mailing list - Kim Springer
  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:17:35 -0700
  I know when the Digifant system is in the warm-up cycle that, just like the carb models with chokes, enrichment is going on...
• Re: Idle goes to 1,800 in Park
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:46:43 -0700
  ...the same thing, even though it's an '87 with the Digifant system. > Still trying to figure it out. > > Marc > > On Wed, Oct 10...
• Re: more trouble with Billy
  Historical mailing list - Gary McEachern
  Sun, 7 Mar 2004 07:47:36 -0500
  ...they used the >> digifant system and >> the treatment of the digifant system in the golf manual is MUCH better >> than the treatment in the...
• Re: Are all 2.1 engines digifant?
  Historical mailing list - SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
  Sun, 4 May 2014 20:45:11 -1000
  ...The owner > keeps the Digijet system adapting it to the 2.1 This may be true the > other way around (1.9 with Digifant...
• Re: Air Flow Meter Wiring Harness Uprade, (Was: Bucking and Snorting on Fwy)
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:24:41 -0500
  I was told by the local VW dealer it was only for Digifant FI, but some have used it for Digijet as well. Personally...