Ford fuel injectors
Ford fuel injectors im a little confused. why do i see so many people using ford racing fuel injectors? are they really that bad ***? isnt it kinda like joining the enemy?
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Ford injectors are low cost and work. It is a part why would you pay 5 cents more for a different named part? I don't get it when someone thinks Ford is an enemy. If it weren't for Ford who would make GM look good?
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Top color isn't a line of injectors. Ford started using multiple holes to inject fuel in, instead of 1 big hole that the needle sits in. Essentially helping atomize the fuel much better, and you get a much better burn as a result. Mine are Blue Tops, which are 24#, the Red Tops are 30#, which is a good start if you've got a fairly built motor that will need more fuel.
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If you need big **** ones you can get the ones from a Lightening
I think the supercharged ones run 80#, but don't quote me on that. fiveomotorsport has a huge stock of injectors, and you can get them flow match and blueprinted and cost about the same as what Accells cost new, so getting SVOs is a much better deal.
I'm not sure about which exact injectors are really SVO though... I consider mine to be, but I could be totally wrong. I would think that the SVO modded cars would get them like the Cobra, Lightening, SHO etc, but from what I've seen all of the newer (early-mid 90s?) are 4 point injection. So if SVOs perform better than standard Ford injectors, that I don't know, but I could tell a difference even before my tune when I stuck in the 24# over my 22#. Could it have been due to my 22s being old, or the 24s being that much better, who knows. (Capricemgr would swear up and down that I'm an idiot and w/o a tune I couldn't have noticed anything, but that's Cap for you...
)In the end, it boils down to them being nice injectors heh
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Yep, I had 2 sets flow tested and they were ALL dead-nuts-on 38.5#/hr except for 3 that came in at 38, 39, 39. It was spooky to have one set of EXACTLY identical injectors on the engine and another set with less than 0.5% variance.
They are very well matched if you get a set from a factory Terminator engine. Not sure about the rest of the Ford Racing injector line-up (like the always popular 42# green-tops), but the big blues are money!
Since they need more fuel to make the same hp as a NA engine, those 38.5# injectors are good for 530 to 580 hp at 85% duty cycle. You can run the duty cycle up for small periods of time, but I think you'd need more injector to realisticly go above that.... unless you used a wet-shot that delivers fuel with jets instead of injectors. (A walbrow 255lph should have about 60lph head room above a maxed set of 39# injectors
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They're a good injector if you have adapters for the electrical connectors
They are very well matched if you get a set from a factory Terminator engine. Not sure about the rest of the Ford Racing injector line-up (like the always popular 42# green-tops), but the big blues are money!
Since they need more fuel to make the same hp as a NA engine, those 38.5# injectors are good for 530 to 580 hp at 85% duty cycle. You can run the duty cycle up for small periods of time, but I think you'd need more injector to realisticly go above that.... unless you used a wet-shot that delivers fuel with jets instead of injectors. (A walbrow 255lph should have about 60lph head room above a maxed set of 39# injectors
).They're a good injector if you have adapters for the electrical connectors
Ford injectors are very easy to tune. i called Bryan Herter from PCMforless and asked him what is the best brand for my 396 and he said Ford handsdown. he uses them on his 383 said they are excellent for tuning.