In a message dated 11/22/00 12:28:02 PM, macmillan@home.com writes:

<< You're driving me back to the Bentley and the Bosch manual on this one.
I'll check it out. >>

Stuart,

Shortly after I purchased an '84 Sunroof, I did the natural thing and
performed a full maintenance on the engine.  After that, the engine would cut
out at redline as if someone had pulled the plug on the thing.  Because the
tune up was the point off demarcation for what I mistook to be a symptom of a
defect, I carefully checked my work.  I found that the P/N of the new rotor
did not match the old.  After accusing my vendor of selling me the wrong part
regardless of what his listings said, I installed one with the original P/N.
So, I was fat, dumb and happy enough to rev that WBX with impunity until the
fact came to me that the correct rotor is designed to cutout in order to
prevent over-revving.  I cannot remember the source of that factoid, but it
seems to jibe with my experience.

Rich