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 ratty 63
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| posted on June 24th, 2006 at 01:22 PM |
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posted by type3lover
.... Of course we would be back to depending upon the advance curve of the magna dizzy which I wonder would be suitable for a mild 1776.
Anyone able to clarify this?
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Couldn't tell you whether the shape of the advance curve would be correct, but you could start by checking to see what the total advance of the Magna
dissy is (in degrees). It will need to be a maximum of close to 32 deg. If it goes much further than this, then I would say that the dissy will not
be suitable.
I was surprised to see that the JE Camira (and other vehicles with the same family of engine) run around 52 deg max advance - although a VW engine
will run with this amount of advance, its definatly NOT recommended!
Perhaps a Gregorys manual (or similar) could tell you this info...
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| posted on June 26th, 2006 at 10:33 AM |
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thats correct the 2.1 bosch dizzy has no mechanical or vacuum advance your ECU controls the advance
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| posted on June 29th, 2006 at 06:30 PM |
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Thanks guys
Still looking for info on machining to allow the magna dizzy to fit.
I also have a later magna dizzy with the EFI sensors and no inbuilt advance. Looking at using this for EFI eventually. Anyway the distributor body is
the same on both.
Back to the actual mod: do you lose the whole mounting tang? If so I could imagine using a vw bracket to hold it in place. Brendan what did you do?
I may have found a guy to do the machining so I'm keen to get things moving.
Cheers, Toby 
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| posted on June 30th, 2006 at 08:33 PM |
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Toby,
I left mine on in case I wanted to try it out with the original solid state ignition unit. It did however clash with my oil pressure sender causing me
to turn it round so the sender on the tee pointed to the back of the car. I used the original VW bracket. Note that when you turn down the end of the
dizzy you have to turn down the boss of the dizzy also. I suggest getting a set of verniers and measuring off of the original distributor and make a
drawing.
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