Just did the same thing myself, except I'm running an inline 4cyl with cis injection. I spliced my vacuum line right off the intake manifold. Now I can tell how hard I'm working the little sucker. I took some pics which I'll post to my website soon.
Randolph Feuerriegel wrote: > > Greetings. > > Well my experiment with the vacum gauge connected before the check valve > was a failure. The gauge readings were not matching the descriptions as > per the manual, nor did they match the readings from a previous post I > read. Tonight I changed the tee connection to the vacum line at the > pressure regulator and voila ! The needle moves nicely with the engine > rpm's and reflect the instruction booklets description of the readings. > Didn't have time to do a test drive tonight, but going to the mainland > tomorrow. Got to get some sleep, have to be up at 4:30 AM to catch the > first sailing. Good night. > > R.Feuerriegel > 88 syncro in Victoria -- _______________________ Erik O Akron, Oh 82 GTI Westfalia http://ebyte.com/gl http://ebyte.com/wow |
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