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R31 Vs Vl - Cas / Distributer Compatibility

Digian

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Digian

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I've had all kinds of trouble a few months ago with my series 1 R31, it started kangaroo hopping and became rather undrivable. Got to the point where it would die after driving it for a while. If i left it overnight and came back it seemed to be fine. Gradually got worse. I was told it sounds like the CAS.

I got hold of a VL distributer / CAS, but for the life of me cannot get the car to fire. I've had 2 mates with a pretty good idea reset the timing / rotor with no luck.

After doing a fair bit of reading i've found the VL distributer is actually a different brand to the R31. It does fit, uses a different rotor, but nobody seems to be able to tell me for certain if the VL distributer DOES work in an R31, or if i've been wasting my time with this in my R31.

So can anybody confirm 100% for certain if the VL dizzy/CAS will work in an R31 ?

Im chasing a proper R31 dizzy at this stage in a last ditch effort.

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VLs only got the hitachi type CAS, which 31's had too but it wasn't common for early 31's like yours. 31's used both hitachi and mitsubishi, which are not interchangable.

As long as you are swapping the whole dizzy with the cas that it originally came with a vl one will work no worries, people have done this. If you just put in a VL cas though it more than likely will not work.

From what you've said it should work going off other peoples testimonials. So really all I can suggest is to hunt down a 31 dizzy/cas.

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There should be no problems swapping the whole dizzy, unless the one you bought is f**ked for some reason.

Just some advice, have a shot asking at http://forum.r31skylineclub.com they know their rb30e's and r31's.

But from what I know about it, it should work unless something else is wrong...

rsx84 Veteran

rsx84

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i think you can use either make of dizzy, but the Mitzi is better? thats just what i remember from forum talk. the only thing i can think of is the CAS is shagged. my old one gotr to a point where the car would run but if you touched the plug for the CAS the car would die.

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