QUOTE(saigon71 @ Apr 12 2018, 02:16 PM)
Will the upgraded AAR be available as a group buy at some point?
Yup. As soon as I make sure it works. I'm also pondering some possibilities that would allow my AAR to be installed as a standalone part -- making it applicable to D-Jet and L-Jet cars.
QUOTE(Mueller @ Apr 12 2018, 02:26 PM)
Looks good. Are those injectors reasonably priced?
I buy mine from DeatshWerks at $260 for 4. But these injectors are on TONS of new cars. So the pick-n-pull available should be HUGE.
QUOTE(Philip W. @ Apr 12 2018, 02:31 PM)
also , are the connectors plug and play or is modification of the stock FI connector from the harness required?
Adapter plugs could be made available pretty easily.
QUOTE(Jeff Bowlsby @ Apr 15 2018, 05:33 PM)
I see this new bracket is not indexed to the tine on the manifold. What keeps the injector bracket from rotating around its bolt and moving from side to side?
Nothing, I suppose. I'm not sure why they would be moving around. These will use the stock fuel rails as well, so that should provide some additional rigidity to guard against that concern. If I do another run I'll look into adding these tabs. I didn't add them initially because I was concerned about machining costs.
QUOTE(Dave_Darling @ Apr 15 2018, 11:37 PM)
Is there any reasonable way to have the electrical connector point the same way as the stock injectors?
Nope.
It does rotate freely, so you can put them left/right/down or anywhere in between.
QUOTE(barefoot @ Apr 16 2018, 07:07 AM)
Nicely done, for your future runs, please add some big fillets between the "sheet metal" part and the cylindrical part, also at the nipple to larger diameter corner, since these are direct metal moulded parts
I'd love to hear more about what you mean. These are CNC machined from aluminum, but you said "direct metal moulded parts" so I thought maybe you meant DLMS/3D-metal-printing. I understand that adding fillets would add strength, but it doesn't seem relevant to this part (no strength necessary). If you're seeing something I'm not, let me know.
QUOTE(brownaar @ Apr 16 2018, 10:03 AM)
Very nice. My only concern is have you added another potential leak point in the system where the injector mates with the bracket?
Sure. It's an additional potential leak point, but there's not much to be done about this. New injectors are ALL rail mount, so in order to upgrade I had to accept this fact. But it's a potential leak that present in every car that uses a rail-mount injector, which is pretty much every car produced in the last 10+ years. So I'm not doing anything unusual here. Those cars don't have leak problems, so as long as my parts are machined right they shouldn't have a lea problem either.