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On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:11, timothy kuehn wrote: > good day, all. > > Okay, with all this ranting about how the .009 is such an evil little piece > of crap, and it's ruining my mpg and shortening my engine's life... someone > help me out. What distributor would make me & my car happier? > > It's a '72, but, natch, FI swapped out in favor of baby Webers by PO. > > The Webers do have vacuum ports near the very bottom of the throats - did we > ever decide, back when we were talking about such things, whether these were > in the correct position to send a usable signal to a dual-advance > distributor? > > So, a 2-part request: first, anyone with a strong opinion as to what > distributor would make my car drive better (not that it drives too badly now > - but there's always room for improvement), and last longer, and get better > mileage? > and second, anyone in greater L.A. that has & is willing to reasonably sell > such an item? > A pre '72 T-3 FI distributor is a good choice. Or, '66-'67 T-3 if that is not availible -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org