So here's my question. Since these are so high quality and awesome, will the price of JUST these injectors rival or exceed the price of p-pumping or common railing a 7.3? Don't get me wrong, I know you have to pay to play, and I know that it costs big money for any engine in any ideration to compete these days. I am just wondering if I should hold my breath on being able to afford something like this 10 years from now, short of winning the lottery.
I hope I didn't offend anyone. I am sure the questions are entirely too forward this early in the development of these. I was just wondering what the projected demographic is. Is this for someone building a truck to compete in the local pulls and races as a hobby, or is it strictly something aimed at the "professional" competitor. They sound incredible. You do amazing work and I am thankful we have people willing to foot the bill to develop and produce products to further our socalled dead platforms. Good luck!
Those are fair questions - and I am only prepared to answer them vaguely at this point for multiple reasons that I won't get into.
As it stands these are being built and developed initially for competition rigs - that makes the initial demographic very small - like 6 trucks you could probably put names to if you wanted to try (not that any arrangement or agreement exists with any of those names that you can think of - and obviously I'm ultimately building these for me and my goals). Beyond that as I progress forward I want to port this more into the mainstream injector sales.
The cost of something like this will be significantly shy of the bare minimum for a mechanical or CR conversion - but the usage of these might also require certain tweaks or changes to the supporting mods normally required for a set of injectors.
I hope that helps clarify some - while not giving direct concrete answers - this is still my little science experiment. As Nate so eloquently put it - I will release info as I see fit, when I see fit, but I've talked about these things for so long that I wanted to show that the long delays and hype are producing results.
The scary thing is - these are not all that wild...
Nice to see that you've taken steps to ensure durability out of the P&B sets. Now just imagine some dude losing fuel pressure and ruining 8 of them all at once...
So what's the plan on making up for the lost hydraulic ratio? Shifting the entire ICP operating range with greater poppet spring pre-load?
When someone loses fuel pressure and ruins a whole set of 8... I will probably cry like a little school girl for a while.... then put on my big boy panties and deal with the issue (with possible school girl like outbursts occasionally).
These are not that wild, just wild enough - in fact they could be used initially without any compensation in a competition rig because at the high end of the spectrum the reduction in pressure loss through the injector should not only compensate is should show an improvement in actual pressure at the tip (as evidence by a higher flow rate through the same tip at the same ICP and PW).
Ultimately I will break out the parts and pieces that I originally broke Nate's bench with as it melted out parts and spilled oil all over the floor as we went well passed what is known as "extreme ICP" in some circles. Yeah... sorry about that again Nate... ready to do it again? LOL
