Valerian

Well i've been looking at the damn thing all day and still no joy. I have checked the cambelt........ the top cam pulley mark and the crank pulley mark line up perfect. The bolts that clamp the dizzy are in the correct holes. I did find that the air filter was missing and that someone has cut a huge chunk out of the front of the airbox though. So i drove 10 miles to get an airfilter and some new spark plugs .......fitted them but the situation is still the same. It still won't run half decent unless the dizzy is turned fully clockwise. If you set the dizzy in the middle it struggles to even idle. By the way....the rotor turns anticlockwise. My final thought is that the ECU or whatever you call it could be faulty. I don't really know as i am a Nissan man and new to VW's. I say it could be the ECU because the speed read out doesn't seem to be correct ....even when struggling to do 70mph the computer display says i am doing 15mph....also it rarely says i am doing more than 20mpg. I'm rather stumped at the mo. I even tried changing the drivers door handle (which is broken) for one the last seller gave me with the car but it had a different type of fork on it so i didn't even get that done....pffffft. :mad: Any help here would be greatly appreciated. :cry:

Thank you for the responses so far but i need to know the answer to the original question which was :- Should the larger connector on the distributor be facing the front of the engine bay or the rear?

i believe the rotor turns clockwise when the engine is running ....is the correct firing order 1-3-4-2?

Won't run at all if i position it in the middle.....i'll check all the timing marks at the weekend.

The dizzy is fully clockwise at the mo.....if i turn it anticlockwise it gets worse

I'm new to VW's and have just bought a Corrado 1.8 16V as a project. What i want to know is ....should the larger connector on the distributor be facing the front of the engine bay or the rear. I ask this because at the moment the car basically runs like a pile of poo....if i turn the dizzy fully clockwise the running improves. So i'm wondering if someone has put the dizzy in the wrong way up. I've not had a great deal of time to look at the car yet....only other thing that springs to mind is the possibility that the timing belt has slipped a tooth.