Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Aug 6 16:17:43 2001

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> > Want a fuel injection "brain" from a 1968 VW Squareback?
> Had Bosch come up with EFI already by 1968?
yes.
> Every VW (and Audi & MB, etc) of that vintage that I've seen used
> CIS, which was a purely mechanical system.
Then you've never seen any VWs of that vintage.
In 1968, ALL VW type 1 (beetle) and type 2 (bus) used a single carburetor.
The type 3 was Botch electronic fool injection (Lots of wires and senders,
and a "brain" in the left rear fender)
There was no type 4 yet.


through about 1964, the VW type 3 (squareback/ "fastback"/ and the
"rare" "notchback") had a single sidedraft Solex carb, with
single port heads.
Then they switched to to two Solex carbs ????? -2 and -3
'67 VW type 3 had the two carburetors (with dual port heads)

In 1968, the type 3 switched over to Botch electronic fool injection.
It was a 1600cc engine. It required a little tweaking to make the EFI
work with 2180 (the maximum size that that block could be readily expanded
to.)


> I have seen a 1969 Audi Super 90 (wagon) that had an aftermarket
> Capacitative Discharge Ignition (CDI) System... by 1974, Audis
> had those as stock, while CIS was still 1 year off...
> My 1986 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro uses a Motorola 6802-based
> controller... very simple to upgrade, too.... ;-)

[every time somebody doubts the existence of stuff, I double the price on
it due to its obvious rarity!]

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Aug 06 2001 - 16:17:43 BST

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