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Hi Jim - I just completed a diagnostic run with fuel pressure gauge and voltmeter from voltage regulator. I had my son in the right seat and watching the gauges - we took two loops of a 7-mile route - half surface streets, half highway. Throughout, the fuel pressure held steady at 28 psi and the voltage went from about 14.5V at idle up to about 16-17V at speed. There were a few times I felt the car bog a bit - most noticable from a dead stop during acceleration to street speed (~40mph). For reasons that may be due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - the car actually "felt" better than it had in awhile... the next true test would be to take it on the trip to work (24 miles one-way - mostly highway). Any thoughts at this point? Thanks, MJS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" <cwo4smith@comcast.net> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 4:37 PM Subject: [T3] 68 Fastback FI (?) Issues - Diagnostic Help Requested > Hi Type 3 gang... > > Well, after installing my recently worked-over-by-Jim-Adney distributor - > setting my timing to 0 TDC, and getting dwell to ~50 degrees, I backed my 68 > FI fastback out of the garage, set off down the street, and.... nuts. > > The car starts to accelerate and then just goes flat - the engine is > running, but it just seems to run out of power... > > When the car is driving along - about 25 mph on neighborhood streets - it > doesn't feel exactly like it's missing, but I can feel it is minute > accelerations and decelerations as I'm driving at more or less steady speed. > > if I press the accelerator pedal, it immediately picks up and then goes > flat - runs out of power - again.... > > At Jim's advice, I switched out the original A-brain with a never-installed > remfg'd Bosch B-brain - Jim also provided me an OG coil to replace my > recently purchased Bosch blue coil... no change. > > At present, I did check the fuel pressure - it was a touch low - I dialed it > up to 28 psi from 26 psi. Jim also suggested checking the voltage off the > regulator - I misplaced my voltmeter, but I'll find it tomorrow and take a > look. > > Any ideas about what these symptoms might be pointing too? > > Thanks alot. > > Mike Smith > San Jose, CA > 68 Fastback > 67 Sunroof Beetle > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >