My ID 1000 injectors came in this week. If you haven't heard about these your in for a surprise. Big injectors have been used to fuel high power machines since Motorsport was really popular. In the most basic idea of an Internal combustion engine, the more fuel you burn, the more power you make. This is only half true, on a bad "tune" your engine may be burning tons of fuel, but is doing so without efficiency. In this, a car with smaller injectors and better tuning will outperform a car just burning too much fuel.
You have to think about injectors like the fixtures in your sink. The smaller amount of water you want to get, the smaller you can make the droplets, conversely, the more water (fuel) you want, the more it turns from droplets to a steady stream. The same is true in injectors for race motors. The more fuel you try to push, the larger the droplets, and the more un-even the fueling becomes. This is the wonder about the ID's, they don't do it. The spray pattern, beading, and droplet size of these fairly large injectors (1000cc) In essence, they make these injectors run far far better, with better throttle response, idle quality, and then any injector in its size range.
Well enough with the raving about fuel injectors. If you want to read more, check them out here
http://www.injectordynamics.com/ID1000.html
The new Evo Specific hub for the OMP wheel should be here early this week, and i'll probably bolt it in on Wednesday. The HTE seat and brackets should be arriving no later then next week, as the 10th is the deadline I've given the Motorsports dealer to get it to me.
I have no doubt they will get the seat to me on time. I purchase most of the Motorsports "accessories" for my cars from HMS Motorsports in Danvers, MA. My suit, helmet and interior safety pieces have all come from them, and they have always taken care of me there.
In other news, my cylinder heads "should" be back this week, and we'll try to get the motor rebuilt, sans turbo, in prep for caging and after-market ECU install. I'm super stoked to see the new heads, and see how they were upgraded and ported out to give our fairly large turbo room to breathe. This head started out as a dimple re-decking, but with all the cost of getting it out to the machine shop, it was better to do it right the first time and get the head up to race-specs. I won't be running my full HP this season, for a few reasons, but when we take this setup all the way next year, I want the Head's to be fully capable of supporting the weight.
I'll have multitudes of pics up of the new Heads when they come in, as well as a few shots of the new injectors later today.
I am unsure of where the current car in Chris Howard's shop is with it's current roll-cage fab, So i can't be sure when my car will go in, but it has been in for a week, so it's likely Chris won't be done for another 2 or three. However, that really depends on how intricate the cage is. As we saw in a previous post, these are extremely intricate cages with real craftsmanship in them, craftsmanship which saves lives. Not just 1 or 2 lives either. Lots.
In other news, DSG got back from the 100 Acre Wood Rally in Missouri yesterday. DSG'supported driver and Ex-Subaru factory Driver Ramana Lagemann was involved in a nasty crash with his SP class GR Subaru, but thankfully Both Driver and Co-driver are both ok, and i'm told the car will be repaired by the next event. This is a common event with Rally Racing, but its never fun to see or hear about people you know crashing. The Lawless Project Wishes Ramana the best and hope he remembers "thats why they call it fishing, not catching"
Rally Tire competitor and Open Class car driver Burak Tuglu also had a crash, giving him a DNF (did not finish) for the event. Burak drives an Evo 9, and one can be certain that he will be back to continue his campaign. In better news, Rally Tire team-mate and another DSG maintained car, driven by Lauchlin O'Sullivan, Driving the STI, placed 2nd in SP class for the weekend. Keep at it guys!
