Date:         Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:51:55 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: 5 cyl conversion update?
Comments: To: KENWILFY@AOL.COM
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Digifant has a knock sensor built in.  It is how digifant works.  If for
some crazy reason there is NO knock sensor, you will be kissing that 2.0L
away in a matter of months of you run 87 octane gas and actually use it
going up hills!

At 22:43 05/02/1999 EST, KENWILFY@AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 99-02-05 01:57:47 EST, you write:
>
><< Yeah, Eurospec made their own ECU. Doesn't have a knock
> sensor though which is kind of standard on most of the newer ECUs...
>
> dave >>
>
>Uh, just think about this for a minute. Do you really think that Overland
>Parts (who puts together the Eurospec kits) is going to have a new type of
ECU
>developed just for thier conversion kits (they can't be selling more than 500
>units a year of these)?  They just adapted an exsisting ECU.
>I have been dealing with them for a while now and they have been known to
>"stretch" the truth now and again.
>Ken Wilford
>Van-Again
>John 3:16
>
>

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