[T3] 009 can o worms and other dizzy stuff

[John Baker <harmony@buszen.com>]

First of all let me say that I know the whole ugly
story about the 009 dizzy as it relates to VW buses. I
ripped the one of of my 71 Westy as soon as I found
the stock 205Q at a swap meet.
But what about T3 engines? I am working on a 1600 dual
carb engine from 67? squareback. It had the wrong
distributor, one from a split window beetle if my
references are correct. I want to replace this dizzy
mostly because i am having a heck of a time finding
the correct points and condensor. I have a couple of
other 205x dizzy's as spares for my bus, and I thought
I would try one of these just to see if it would work.
However TDC, on the engine does not correlate to where
TDC should be on these dizzys (rotor lined up with
notch in the case ) and the size of the vacuum can
restricts rotation of the dizzy in the tight space
enough to where it cannot turn far enough to correlate
with TDC on the engine. So is there any way to make
one of these dizzies work? (I know the vacuum curves
will be slighly differnt, but I think I can adjust
timing enough to off-set this).
And if NOT, what about the 009 in a T3 engine? I
understand the hesitation problems it created in my
bus 1600 with the 34pict3 carb, but are the problems
as pronounced with the T3 setup?
Thanks & PEACE! John Baker 


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