Dragon6

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HI guys bit of a Scooby newbie.I have been into old skool VW`s for years and always had a hankering after either a 96 Series Mc Rae or the later Catalunya edition anyway the couple of Catalunaya`s I`ve seen seem to have two red hoses/pipes running across the top of the inlet manifold stopping in the middle into like a a junction box kind of thing.Whereas the Mcrae doesn`t.Can anyone shed any light onto what these are/do? Thanks in advance

my94wrx

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not sure what the pipes are for off hand without seeing a picture, the reason why there is a difference is the mcrae is a earlier model impreza (based on a v1-2), and the catalunya is based on v3, which had revisions to the engine ancillaries lay out

joz8968

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Is the OP refering to the MY97 Catalunya's small rectangular black plastic coilpack on the inlet manifold with the four convential red-orange HT leads from it? The McRae, being a MY93-96, obviously doesn't have this (coilpacks on plugs - out of sight).

mit

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Yeah, sounds like the coil pack as above. The early car has a coil pack on each plug, the later has a coil in the centre of the inlet, with HT leads

Dragon6

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Ah right cheers guys thats sorted that out..