

| Subject: | Re: Digifant Newbs: Vanagon ProTraining Digifant Manual. Worth Getting! |
| From: | Robert Ueltzen |
| Date: | Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:46:20 -0700 |
According to my Bentley for 86-92 Jetta,Golf, and GTI, the Digifant II has a throttle position switch, and no knock sensor like the Vanagon. The Digifant II also has a Hall Ignition Control Unit. Digifant I has a throttle position potentiometer, an ignition coil power stage, and a knock sensor set up. I believe the Digifant I system was used for the California cars in 1991, and 1992. rob a.k.a. old kayaker 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 1991 Jetta (with Digifant I) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > On 6/12/2012 9:16 AM, neil n wrote: >> >> Searching again, it seems I shouldn't have quoted Wiki. > > > I glanced over the Wiki entry for Digifant. > The author is not very Vanagon focused ...but more Golf/jetta focused. > he talks of the ECU havinga knock sensor as an input .. > our vanagons of course do not. > I could-should dig out a jetta ecu I have and see if it says 'Digifant > II' on it .. > wouldn't surprise me if it does. > > In our vanagons though ..it's plane ole Digifant to me. � Bentley too I > think. > the author also talks about the 'Air Control Valve (IACV)' �as something > the ECM conotols. > As if that valve was controlled by the �ECU in Vanagon in our Digifant > systems. > It's not mainly of course.. > but rather by the Control Unit behind the right tail light. > it's just not a vanagon-digifant focused article really. > Better than nothing if one has no idea what digifant is .. > but not very useful to use Vanagonauts. > Not very well �written in my opinion, kinda jumps around. > Also strikes me that the author is more into the digital functioning of > the ECU guts more, �than into the real world of dirty engines that don't > run right due to Digifant System parts, signals, or wires that are not > behaving. Like a bit theoretical and not 'in the trenches of the real > automotive world.' > Whatever ...it's better than nothing let's say. �Just doesn't fit > vanagon digifant that well. > > scott
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