Boy, does that ever look familiar.  Fuse blocks and ground blocks look exactly like MY Daytona MiGi’s when I got her.  Only my wires were ALL green, and a tangled bird’s nest. I spent days and days, weeks and weeks, trying to trace circuits down.  My son ( pretty versed in VW’s ) talked me into scrapping it all and starting over.  I purchased a P…[Read more]

looks like I will leave well enough alone , thanks guys Bill

with key off take test light & check . that will tell you which circuit is hot all the time .  then take the fuses out turn key on check each end of where the fuse connects that will tell you which is supply to the circuit . also pull the supply (hot wire ) to the coil so you do not burn the points out . I would not trust wire color unless you…[Read more]

No sway bar on mine.   No troubles at all.

Big fun it was! Thanks for noticing the work and detail we have done to ol “Breezy” …She is a pretty good car.

Took mine off 1000 miles ago with no negative effects. I was like you, it clunked against the front skid plate on bumps, and was very annoying. I have cornered and driven aggresively, (as much as possible in a 50 year old VW chassis!) and my car performs as expected. I am not putting mine back on.

Ground (GND) to ground. Positive (red, +) to key switched +. Lights are a + wire from the dash lights or the headlight switch. Finally the green or signal wire goes to the negative (-) terminal on you coil. done.

vid: https://youtu.be/BLPhQrOnCCc

there are only 4 connections usually negative (ground) positive (power)  signal (comes from ignition coil where the dist . wire connects ) & power for light you can probably look up the info from the tach . brand’s website keep us informed on your progress

Pretty great video, man! Looks like you found the missing set screw.

Try this link.

Looks like that video link failed to work…I’ll work on that.