D-Jet vacuum hose question, Which hose, or Both? Options

[Olympic 914]

Just finished up installing all the FI wiring harness and the vacuum hoses and now the engine compartment looks like a bowl of Spaghetti.

This engine started out as a 73 1.7 with the stock FI and I converted everything to a 2.0 system. I did use some of the original 1.7 parts as they were the same for both engines. But all the 2.0 FI parts ( throttle body, plenum, air filter housing ,etc.) where cobbled together from fleabay purchases and I am not sure what years those parts were from. Also used the original 73 1.7 FI wiring harness and ECU and had to make a couple extensions to get everything to hook up. Not much problem there, (except for trying to connect those ground wires under the plenum. )

Now to the question, I was using Bowlsby's vacuum diagram that is for a late 74 2.0 system and while hooking up the vacuum lines to the dizzy it seem that one line is no longer used.



in the diagram above I have the green vacuum hose connected from the throttle body to the dizzy as shown by the Orange circles. I also have another vacuum port on my dizzy that I have connected to the second vacuum port on my throttle body shown by Blue circles.

Should I have both of these hooked up? or do I disconnect the Black vacuum line as shown in Bowlsby's diagram and just plug the second port on the throttle body.
This is what I have hooked up now.



Is there a reason that the later versions did not have this second port hooked up?
What benefits are there to using the second line to the dizzy vacuum canister?

in picture below the green line from the throttle body is routed differently

[Olympic 914]

Concerning the Decel valve.

Just to add to the discussion / confusion is this 10 year old thread....

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...=67150&st=0

My experience when trying to set it was that if I blew into the side port it was very easy to tell when the valve opened using a mity-vac to provide vacuum to the control port.

HOWEVER.. If I blew into the end port it was not as obvious when the valve opened,
again providing vacuum to the control port using the mity-vac.

I don't understand this at all and just used the method of blowing into the side port to set the valve and then hooked it up with the side port to the air filter and the end port to the plenum.