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924 Ignition

Disclaimer: any information provided here is used at your own risk. I accept no responsibility for any damage you may do to yourself, others or you car. Having said that I thoroughly recommend getting yourself the Haynes owners workshop manual for the 924. It's the best publication of it's type for the car, oh and also make sure you're on friendly terms with your local porsche parts interpreter and wrecker, they can save you both time and money with their useful information.

Updating your "kettering points" ignition to electronic
The "points" type ignition found in early euro (and US?) spec 924's, can easily be replaced by a "Hall-Effect" electronic ignition system. "Ignitor" make a conversion unit that replaces the points and best of all (unlike similar systems like the Crane-Allison) is completely housed within the distributor cap. It cost me AUD$180 but I never have to touch points again! While your at it check you distributor vacuum advance unit. Follow the vacuum hose from the distributor to the intake manifold. Unplug the hose from the manifold and (with the distributor cap off) suck on the hose, the points or hall-effect sensor should move. Replacing my broken advance unit fixed a number of ignition and performance hassles I was having with the car and at AUD$36 it's an easy and cheap fix.

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