Rod Handsfield

Twin distributers. What's the real story? I've heard it was a question of not enough space in the engine compartment in the '84 and '85 Euros. I'm not buying it. I have an '83 Euro with a single distributer. It's a screamer and the single distributer with eight contacts works just fine. Inquiring minds want to know.

The Forgotten On

It was to allow the more advanced EZK system to work on the 16V engine without a significant redesign.

They would have had to engineer multiple new parts to get two 944 distributors to mount onto the front of each camshaft.

Porsche didn't want to invest the money at the time on an aging engine platform when new 32V heads were a year away.

Making 1 new part that utilizes existing parts costs a lot less money than making a few new ones. Especially when Porsche at the time was a little low on funds to say the least.

85euro928

EZF maybe?
I wish I had an EZK

Wisconsin Joe

My understanding (and I could certainly be wrong on this) is that there was an issue with the single coil being able to provide good spark at higher RPMs. So they went to a dual coil/twin distributor setup.

As was noted, the 32v put the distributors on the front of the heads, but this wasn't a viable option for the 16v motors.

James Bailey

Two coils are better than one....eight are better than two......just dwell on that for a while

Rob Edwards

I see watt you did there...

hacker-pschorr

Mrmerlin

think of your V8 as two V4 cylinder engines

hacker-pschorr

I prefer to think of it as four V-Twin engines, but that works too.

GT6ixer

Mutually opposing slant-4 boxer engine with 8 reciprocating dingle arms

worf928

Some find the humor too advanced. Someone needs to knock them on the heads.

85euro928

This post is retarded.

dr bob

Completely missing the points here... (recoils in horror)

Rod Handsfield

So, Dr. Bob. It's all about the Re COILS?