Re: [T3] T3 F.I. or Carbs to CIS

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 7 Dec 2000, at 9:52, Richard Green wrote:

> Anyone try a CIS conversion. I have (somewhere?) a article from one of
> the UK magazines that had a "how to" for a Type 1 to Rabbit/Golf CIS
> fuel injection conversion. CIS is not electronic like the T3, mostly
> mechanical but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

It should certainly work in theory, but I think the problem will be 
with vertical clearance. The K-Jet FI needs to have a rather high 
space for the air to flow UP thru the metering system. Perhaps this 
could be rigged up, but it would have to be off to one side or 
protrude above the original type 3 ceiling. Perhaps this is more 
likely in a non-squareback type 3.

The K-Jet system is a really fascinating system with steel parts 
machined to (really!) a few millionths of an inch tolerances. It's 
quite a clever mechanical system which I suspect was the reaction to 
the typical mechanic's hatred of the D-Jet system and all of its 
electrical sensors.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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