Yup, my thought as well.
What this means is your engine is running with only one advance setting...rather than the dynamically controlled advance it needs for efficient operation.
Unfortunately there's no work around other than to grab the entire harness and the controller module that would have come with the car... this particular pump is about half-way towards the full ECU control used in the next version of this engine... the TDI... and needs some electronic smarts to run properly.
Or, find an earlier fully mechanical AAZ pump.