Date:         Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:04:44 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stuart MacMillan <macmillan@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Rev Limiter?
Comments: To: JKrevnov@AOL.COM
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Well, incorrect rotors can easily cause a high speed miss or cutout, the
spark can literally jump all over the inside of the cap.  I've done this
one too in the past.  I'll check my books tonight and see if I can dig
up a definitive answer.

Rico Sapolich wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/22/00 12:28:02 PM, macmillan@home.com writes:
>
> << You're driving me back to the Bentley and the Bosch manual on this one.
> I'll check it out. >>
>
> Stuart,
>
> Shortly after I purchased an '84 Sunroof, I did the natural thing and
> performed a full maintenance on the engine.  After that, the engine would cut
> out at redline as if someone had pulled the plug on the thing.  Because the
> tune up was the point off demarcation for what I mistook to be a symptom of a
> defect, I carefully checked my work.  I found that the P/N of the new rotor
> did not match the old.  After accusing my vendor of selling me the wrong part
> regardless of what his listings said, I installed one with the original P/N.
> So, I was fat, dumb and happy enough to rev that WBX with impunity until the
> fact came to me that the correct rotor is designed to cutout in order to
> prevent over-revving.  I cannot remember the source of that factoid, but it
> seems to jibe with my experience.
>
> Rich

--
Stuart MacMillan
Seattle

'84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1
'65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969)
'74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly)

Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM):
'72 MGB GT (Daughter's)
'64 MGB (Son's)

Stripped and gone but their parts live on:
'68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT