Date:         Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:39:33 +0200
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From:         tinker man <tinkerman007@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ECU firmware location
Comments: To: Bob Donalds <donalds1@verizon.net>
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On 9/17/07, Bob Donalds <donalds1@verizon.net> wrote:
> TM
> I did not mean to exclude the list
> I'm kind of out of my league with the tech part of this

Maybe, but you have lots of important info backed up by lots of experience...
And yes, those microprocessors ARE my league...:-)
(but engines, distributors, dynos and mechanics aren't...).
If my Garage mechanics (not only VW) were competent at fixing fuel
injection systems I wouldn't get into it, but it seems when it gets to
electronics they get a dumb look on their faces and start replacing
very expensive parts unnecessarily...
So I've learned to diagnose before I let them get near. They do the
mechanical stuff, I do the thinking...:-) (With the help of the list
and Bentley).

> so share anything I write you with the list

Great. This will stir much interest, I'm sure.

> the CPU is again not something I looked at I was getting this looked at with
> SRS in Walpole MA Dick Shine

What's "SRS in Walpole MA Dick Shine"?

> He was taking out the EPROM's and reading them for me that's a far as I got
> so that's why I have what's on the EPROM's

Like I said, good for backup and verification.

> and as I said Daryl told me the Euro has no hookup for 02s

That's interesting, because in the US Digijet (I think you told me) do
support O2 sensors, and someone on this thread reported that US
Digijets use a completely different CPU (Z80). So maybe US and Euro
Digijets are completely different animals. I'd like to get an internal
picture of all those. Currently I have just a 1990 Euro Digijet and
Jon Kenneke has posted on his website
(http://kenneke.com/vwfi/fi.html) a US Digifant.
I need more internal pictures of all models available (1983.5-1991, US
and EURO) to clarify these issues.

> can you tell me what dist you have is it the 2.1 or the 1.9 with the vac can

Already did in previous thread, it seems it does have a vac can.
TM