Date:         Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:36:14 -0500
Reply-To:     Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
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From:         Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
Subject:      Re: purchase advice sought
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>
>Regarding the engine, it has the 1.9 Digijet engine as opposed to the
>2.1 Digifant in 86 and newer Vanagons.  I have not been dissatisfied
>with this, and since it is not running A/C or power steering it has less
>work to do.  The Digijet is a simpler fuel injection system with an air
>flow meter design that has been reliable for me, absolutely no problems
>with this system so far.  The 2.1 Digifant uses a "hot wire" airflow
>monitoring system.  Outside of better accuracy for pollution control I
>see no real advantage, and it is a much more expensive system to
>repair/replace.

The Digifant does NOT use a hot wire AFM. It uses a nearly identical
unit to the digijet. The Digifant is not much more complicated than
the digijet, in fact it's simpler. Some of the parts (Such as the
AFM) are much cheaper than on the digjet.


Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@uswest.net