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Posted by: tn_man@hushmail.com Jul 13 2018, 11:34 AM

A guy I had washing my 19973 1.7 Porsche pulled the plug wires and I can't find any information covering this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John

Posted by: theer Jul 13 2018, 11:47 AM

John,

a picture would be great... or at least a description of the plug you are asking about.

Posted by: tn_man@hushmail.com Jul 13 2018, 11:52 AM

Thanks for replying, I need to know where the wires go into the distributor cap. I know the direction of the rotor button is clockwise. John

Posted by: BeatNavy Jul 13 2018, 11:59 AM

This assumes you've got a stock 4-cylinder.

Posted by: tn_man@hushmail.com Jul 13 2018, 12:08 PM

Thank you that's the information I need, it's much appreciated. John

Posted by: marksteinhilber Jul 13 2018, 06:04 PM

It also assumes the 4 cyl is in a 914 or mid-engine rather than one of those azz draggin 912e. Then the front of car is not where it should be....

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Jul 13 2018, 06:36 PM

Where in TN John? I'm an hour east of Jackson

Posted by: tn_man@hushmail.com Jul 14 2018, 07:17 AM

Good morning and thank you for replying. I'm east of Knoxville in Sevierville. Would you happen to have a diagram of the coil wiring?

Posted by: tn_man@hushmail.com Jul 14 2018, 07:58 AM

Good morning. It was the U.S. Army that beat me LOL. You were a lot of help yesterday, do you have antyhins similar on the coil wiring? Thank you, John

Posted by: cary Jul 14 2018, 08:21 AM

Look at the coil closely. You'll see a + or - next to the post with the spade lugs on them.
Black with red stripe goes to the +. (12v power supply)
Black with purple stripe goes to the -. (tach signal)
Then there will be either a solid black or red that goes to the - also. (points or electronic ignition)
Then the big one from the center of the distributor to the center of the coil.