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Subject:Re: Anyone seen Gowesty's Digifiant replacement?
From:kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:17:04 -0400

Jim,

Not really sure why this was needed.  I can supply rebuilt ECU, rebuilt
idle unit, new wiring harness, new distributor, etc. for way less than
this.  The digifant system is actually very reliable.  Instead, lets create
a new system out of parts, and use you as our test subjects...  You can bet
that it will have it's own issues that folks will start a new forum section
just to talk about.

I personally think they came up with this because they were having failures
with their high compression engines due to the fact that the digifant
system doesn't have a knock sensor.  If you have one of their high
compression engines, this could be a great way to go, but if you are going
to spend that much money, why not do a Subaru or some other conversion?

Having OBD II on a waterboxer would be cool, but is it worth $3k?

Just my opinion,
Ken

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:06 PM Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm happy with my diesel westy, but I might have kept my Carat if I had
> this:
>
> <
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/product/electrical/23981/gowesty-engine-management-system?v=
> >
>
> Ultra-pricey but probably a great idea for people with good waterboxers
> whose Digifant electronics are going bad.
>
> Jim
>

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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
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