Chinese injectors for M73

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Lambo97
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Chinese injectors for M73

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The M73N I'm using has vacuum assisted injectors. The only injector in the world I have ever seen with a vacuum hose hanging off the side.
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So I did the right thing and went back to the 80's. Purchased a set of M70 Injectors with all new rubber:
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Top of the line (not) $65 US, all in ready to go 7 hole matched set (so they say)

But in any case I'd rather use these than the old school waiting to leak Vacuum assisted injectors on the M73.

Link if anyone is interested:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SET-12-EV1-Fuel-Injectors-Upgrade-FJ291-16lbs-fits-1988-1994-BMW-750iL-5-0L-V12/174057909600?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
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Re: Chinese injectors for M73

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Lambo97 wrote:
Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:59 am
So I did the right thing and went back to the 80's. Purchased a set of M70 Injectors with all new rubber:
those aren't 80s - 80s should be EV1 fat body style. Those are chinese copies of the later (superior) EV14 style. They'll probably work just fine, but don't expect anything incredible.
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Re: Chinese injectors for M73

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Hahaha, I meant 1980's, yes I've seen these from china, but the eBay auction is US and they are saying they will flow match the injectors so at least I can go back to someone in the US if there is an issue.
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Re: Chinese injectors for M73

Post by mk e »

The all plastic body is an EV6 I think?

I've always wondered how good those things are..the price is amazing but can they be lasering holes and the other things bosch does to make them consistent at 1/10th the price? But the prize is amazing and they have to be better then old plugged or broken injectors.

There is some really good injector data/info here:
http://injectordynamics.com/the-library/

one that is probably most applicable is this one
http://injectordynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/WhosGettingDrilled.pdf

It talking about modified injectors, but if you just skip through it has some nice tables that show just how good OEM injectors are and that not OEM stuff even the expensive injector dynamics versions are not as consistent. My point being if the cost is no objector folks can't beat OEM bosch, I suspect the low cost Chinese injectors are likely to look a lot more like the lower end modified stuff than the OEM stuff......but that's just a guess knowing the way you normally cut costs is by opening tolerances. There is a reason they say they test every injector and that reason is they need to and they don't define what "matched" is ...1%? 5%, 25%?

Which then being us to this article
http://injectordynamics.com/articles/does-dynamic-matching-really-matter/

Its pretty easy to get a set of injectors to match within say 5% at steady state, full on operation. Its really hard to get then matched in dynamic operation. The cheap injectors and even brand name injectors from 20 years ago I used in the past made fine hp but idled bad....because they were all really different flow down around 1-1.5ms (plus dead time) so 1 plug was white, another black and sooted after 10 or 20 minutes at idle.

Fingers crossed the new cheap Chinese injectors are not 1980 like in any way, I lived through that and wouldn't wish it on anyone :lol:
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