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I'm running the Compufire Distributorless system: http://www.icbm.org/erkson/personal/engine.jpg Works really good! To be honest, I don't understand how it knows when to fire the appropriate coil because there's a magnet at each point on the "rotor" disc it uses for triggering inside the dizzy. If someone was to make a quick glance it would *appear* that both coil packs fire for every cylinder firing. There is a notch or bump or some indicator on the disc that is supposed to point to the #1 firing position, just like one would do when installing a normal rotor and setting timing on #1 in the dizzy. Maybe there's only two magnets, 180* separated, and the other two pieces of metal are just dummy, balancing spots of metal. À? Toby Erkson -- air_cooled_nut@pobox.com '72 VW Squareback, '95 VW Jetta, '81 Gold Wing, '73 Porsche 914 http://www.icbm.org/ Portland, Oregon ----- Original Message ----- > Yes it does have coil packs. I have been contemplating if there > is any way at all to convert coil packs for use in our cars but since these > are of a distributorless design I haven't been able to figure this one out yet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org