Wouldn't some thing like accuspark would be cheaper and easier to use these days?

Thats what i fitted to mine. Works great but the carb was letting it down

Why not just drill the 8mm hole in the cam drive for the later dizzy?

iirc, last time i looked at mine, the actual dizzy is smaller in general, so i think fitting it into the head in general would be a problem

Why not just drill the 8mm hole in the cam drive for the later dizzy?

For the last time, not possible I know you mentioned that you can turn the dizzy down so that it fits into the head, and that is a brilliant idea, but in this case there simply isn't enough meat where the seal sits on the later dizzy to take off. If you were to turn in down enough to have it fit in the head then there would be nothing for the seal to sit on :-)

Edit; I've just had a good look at each dizzy side by side, and there might just be enough metal on the later dizzy to be able to fit the smaller seal, however the actual dizzy drive disc/nipple type thing protrudes a lot further than the early dizzy, so unless you space the dizzy out from the face that it bolts to, there isn't enough space for it in the side of the head. And if you do space it out the seal will no longer be sat inside the hole in the head, so it defeats the point in the first place. Even if you somehow managed to overcome all of this, you'll have had such ballache and cost getting it all to fit that you'd have been better off buying an Accuspark kit

Edited 14 April, 201214 yr by Phataz1

Just found this on the Peugeot 205 dizzy setup, same applies for the early polo engines;

http://www.clubgti.com/showthread.php?2281...butor-on-VW-16v

Hi guys, not sure if this is the best place to put this but I have another new solution to the pre 85 and below ignition that I stumbled across earlier today. So to explain fully, I found a company that refurbish and recondition distributors, I called up about my 85' Coupe S and they are an awesome bunch, full of facts. So if you would like to remain on the points and condenser then they can recondition it, however, to the good part, if you would like to convert to the later electronic ignition they actually supply a conversion kit that you install into the interior of your current distributor, all you have to do is remove the innards and replace it with the kit they provide and plug it back into the coil, or send it off to them and they do it for £35.. They also sell already reconditioned distributors with and without the conversion.

Just to add, I and they both recommended to still bypass/remove the resisted wire running to the coil and convert to the later 12v ignition coil after installing the conversion kit.

I've tried to go into as much detail as possible! But I can add to this if anyone has questions.

The link for the conversion kit is here: http://www.ignitioncarparts.co.uk/PartDetails.aspx?s_pc=ICP-EK005&s_vid=8043

The link for the website is here: http://www.ignitioncarparts.co.uk/Default.aspx

Call up or type in your reg and see if your engine codes are compatible as well as your current distributors part number.

Hope this helps people like it did me.