1.8 Fuel injectors Options

[JamesJ]

Hello All,
I need to replace a couple of leaky injectors on my '74 1.8 and wondered if anyone has used an aftermarket injector with success/failure or heard of anyone who has. A knowledgeable friend recommended that I stick with NOS Bosch. Stoddard sells injectors and the salesperson told me that their part number supercedes the Bosch number, but I am unsure about that and they were unable to tell me who manufacturers them or the country of origin.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
James

[ClayPerrine]

I would put new injectors in the car. Running anything that carries gasoline that is 50 years old is a risk. New injectors, hoses, stainless steel lines, and the proper clamps are cheap insurance against a fire.

As for fire... Been there, done that. Watching your 914 burn is the stuff of nightmares.

Just my $.02.

Clay

[Van B]

I would put new injectors in the car. Running anything that carries gasoline that is 50 years old is a risk. New injectors, hoses, stainless steel lines, and the proper clamps are cheap insurance against a fire.

As for fire... Been there, done that. Watching your 914 burn is the stuff of nightmares.

Just my $.02.

Clay

We’ll that was dramatic lol! I decided to go the new injector route too, but I’ve also had great success in rebuilding injectors. As such, I’m going to test my old ones as soon as the come off the car. If they still exceed the minimum 2.4 ohm threshold, I may have my old ones rebuilt and hang onto them for a while.

For @StarBear record purposes. All the new injectors I bought tested at 2.6 ohms. Manual says 2.4 as the min passable score.

Van

[wonkipop]

I would put new injectors in the car. Running anything that carries gasoline that is 50 years old is a risk. New injectors, hoses, stainless steel lines, and the proper clamps are cheap insurance against a fire.

As for fire... Been there, done that. Watching your 914 burn is the stuff of nightmares.

Just my $.02.

Clay

We’ll that was dramatic lol! I decided to go the new injector route too, but I’ve also had great success in rebuilding injectors. As such, I’m going to test my old ones as soon as the come off the car. If they still exceed the minimum 2.4 ohm threshold, I may have my old ones rebuilt and hang onto them for a while.

For @StarBear record purposes. All the new injectors I bought tested at 2.6 ohms. Manual says 2.4 as the min passable score.

Van

clay's dead on with that.

burning 914s were an everyday feature of the LA landscape in the late 70s/early80s i understand.

when i first bought my car off the orig owner we tried to get it started in his garage.
it had not run for a year or two. injectors were orig and car was 15 years old.
one of the jets that fired out of a rotted injector hose hit the ceiling of his garage.
good thing no one was puffing on a cigar.

got a flat bed and just had it taken to a mechanic in chicago.
rotted hoses everywhere. to fuel pump etc.

did it all over again after doing the same thing to the car myself for 16 years.
the lot. tunnel lines the works. and my ritual still involves starting and then going around sniffing everywhere and looking for drips.

EDIT
according to R Atwell's stuff the 912E injectors flow at 3 cc/min higher. pretty neglible in a pinch. which is probably what clay is getting at with equal datsuns.

what you need to be careful with buying NOS is making sure the pintal caps have never been taken off and that preferably they are still bagged. time is moving on and the tips can corrode once exposed to the atmosphere in any significant way. then they are SNAFU and just can't be cleaned or reconditioned. mine had been inactive for 15-16 years. we took them out. had them professionally cleaned and cleared and tested.
but within weeks they just stuffed up again. they did so before we could even get them in the car as we discovered when we went the start up. just ran off its cold start injector and then died. back then 2 years ago i got a good set of 4 for $250 USD out of arizona from a guy who had a beetle that ran the same injectors. tiny bit cheaper than what van is paying now. $ make sense on what he handed over to get some now.