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Subject:Re: weird problem w/ poor 85 Westy gas
Date:Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:00:35 +0000

> 	Is there knock sensor on the 2.1 Digifant engines? I know the
> Digifant II is based on Bosch's Motronic FI system and one of the Motronics
> was the first to use a knock sensor. I thought the knock sensor was designed
> for use with turbo systems to advance/retard the timing to the instance before
> the engine started knocking. I didn't think there was such provisions in
> the Digifant ECU...
My '90 GTI 8V used Digifant *and* had a knock sensor. But, as far as 
I can tell, none of the w/b engines use one.

Shawn & Janis Wright
'88 Westy (336k) '85 Jetta TD (363k)
VWnut@smus.bc.ca (swright@smus.bc.ca)
http://www.islandnet.com/~swright/vw.html