2 types of dizzy?

Hi there,

thought I could get my car back on the road after a week of it off and tired legs…but no!!!!  Found the dizzy I got has a different connection electrical connection



Can I modify this dizzy with that connection or do I need a completely different one?  If so, has anyone got the right distributor?

Thanks as ever

There's definitely more than 2 types, if you include the ones without a hall sender (they have points instead). Then there's the small block ones….

But, for later cars with electronic ignition and a hall sender in the dizzy, yes there's two types, which differ by the connector - one is oval, one is rectangular. I'm not sure if its just the connection, or whether there's other differences too (like, amount of advance per vacuum or mechanically, etc). Also I'm pretty sure (not 100% though) that GTIs have a different dizzy than non-GTI, due to different advance characteristics.

Can you find the wiring with the oval connector and splice it in, or bodge the wiring in some other way to get it running?

This is what I'm wondering.  That dizzy was off an 83 gti, n mines an 87 gti cabby so I (foolishly) assumed they're be the same.  It did also come with the vacuum hose which had an attachment with another electrical connection on it…which mine doesn't have…so I'm thinking that they must work differently too?

can you hold on to that vacuum bit with electrical connection please, because if you don't need it i probably do, i believe it's for the gearchange light on the econometer. thanks

chris

PMed Chris

you can swap the plugs over if you can find an early dizzy plug, the pins will swap once you get the buggers out. can be fiddly but doable with thin watchmaker screwdrivers

Thanks John, I've managed to swap them over but my car still won't effing start so I don't know what's going on (see post entitled HELP!!!! lol)

I have got this same problem, has anyone got a spare connector, to fit the square type plug? Failing that, what is the part number for the connector to fit the square type?

I think this is 211 905 327, connector for the oval plug, but it's the only one shown in ETKA:


For reference:
oval type:

rectangular type:

square type is extremely common, look on mk2, mk3 and others from same age. round plug is the rare type, very early so not so easy to find