Bruce,

On the colour change of the coil, early or late?
Black painted steel or Aluminum covers (Alistair's wonderful Heat-Sink Aluminum photo excepted)..
The black coil was specific/specified for the 2.1 litre Vangaon.

I recall a post on Samba or perhaps BusBoy's web site that stated: the Vanagon coil was black, not
the green one. A Sky-Blue coil? (personally, I like sky blue) but, have not seen one on a 2.1l Vanagon.

As alluded to in a previous post, the dwell is not mechanically adjustable on the 2.1 engine management system.
The 'spark' timing/dwell' is controlled from the ECU. Advanced/Retarded as needed (by the ECU). Requires the appropriate/specified coil. The archives has more info on this problem.

The 30 to 50 mph reports? Yeh, I remember with longing and loathing� I was younger then and had a running Vanagon.

Pz
'87 Vanagon in windows-out resto with Zetec�. gasp!
Now, under my rock off the West Coast as a wind/rain warning has been issued.
Weather slows my restoration�:-(
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On 2014-10-26, at 6:39 PM, Bruce Todd wrote:

> I guess now that I think of it - I believe it is an aluminum body so not really silver in colour.  Yes the old models are black and i have also seen replacements which were sky blue for the 2 liter bus.  I will check the part number - I am fairly confident that it is the right replacement as the mechanic is competent and works on many VWs - including our beloved vanagons. Good to hear that these coils tend to run hot to the touch - maybe we should start a temperature test amongst the group kind of like when we were logging our motor performance - how fast it took us to go from 50 kmh to 80 kmh (30 mph to 50 mph) - does anyone remember that?
> 
> BT
> 
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Date:Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:38:52 -0700
> 
> Bruce Todd <beeceetee@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> This is a new silver Bosch coil - is this normal?
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Not the silver colour of the coil!
> The Water Boxer coil was black in colour, even the replacements.
> May have changed over the years�?
> The alternative part numbers for ignition coils are long and full of errors.
> 
> Coils DO run hot to the touch but, not skin burning hot... from my experience.
> 
> Check the part number on your silver coil, against what our list vendors are offering..
> 
> Happy hot coil running�
> Cook dinner on it while driving?
> 
> Pz
> On a rock off the West Coast.
>