Holy Moley!, Anyone else see what FI cost now! Options

[Engman]

So I was looking thru the Bird Board at Fuel injection componets and I see

Fuel Injector, 4 Per Car, 914 2.0 (1973-74), Each
0-280-150-019 $210.10

Whoa!

Two years ago these were like $89 - now they are over $200!


Anyone know why?


M

[Dave_Darling]

Ouch! I remember when they were $60 each. From us. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif)

Most modern injectors will not fit the intake correctly. Most of them nowadays have a different end to them, and they use different seals. You could probably make it work with some machining... You'd also have to fabricate a way to hold the injectors in place and get fuel to them; most nowadays get sandwiched between the fuel rail and the manifold and don't have any separate way to fasten them. (Talk to the Megasquirt 914 guys; several of them have figured out which injectors can fit and how to make them fit.)

...That's in addition to making sure the flow numbers and the electrical characteristics match the stock injector's...

Sounds like an interesting project, but probably not cost-effective.

Yet.

(Of course, if someone does such a project then they'll have a real leg up when the stock parts get too $$$ to replace.)

--DD