Update: Correct nozzle type is critical. I was sent single hole nozzle injectors and the SC requires pintle style nozzles to get the right spray pattern and run/idle correctly.
This is related to the "Familiar song" thread but there's been so many dead ends and developments on that thread I wanted to start a new one for this specific topic that MIGHT be my problem in the other thread.
Does anyone have a realiable list (Looking directly at you Tim!) of interchangable part nos for fuel injectors that are KNOWN to work with the SC?
If you want to know why I'm asking, read on....otherwise I'm just trying to find out if Standard Motor Products' injector for the 89 SC is ACTUALLY compatible or if there's a history out there of 3rd party injectors NOT working well.
Thanks in advance...
K
I needed new injectors to replace gummed up ones that were preventing the car from starting after sitting for years. Rock Auto had a closeout on white lable injectors that were listed SPECIFICALLY for the SC/XR7. $30 each. Same price as rebuilding mine. So I bought them and they turned out to be SMP brand. A reputable company in my past experience. I put them in and that's when the car first started since acquiring it.
However, as anyone who has read the other thread knows, it's far from running properly and I'm not getting any fault codes at all. Take my word for it, or read the other thread, that I have swapped out at least one working version of almost every sensor and/or part related to fuel and ignition and even an ECU with no change. Only the BAC and MAF is still original. New belden wires and autolite plugs (AP2544 single tip I'm afraid, but still platinum...please tell me if it's at all possible for the single tip platinum vs double tip to cause a car to not hold any RPM without missing and stumbling, even idle).
So now I'm miserably looking at the new injectors I bought, and wondering if I have to take that all apart again.
This is related to the "Familiar song" thread but there's been so many dead ends and developments on that thread I wanted to start a new one for this specific topic that MIGHT be my problem in the other thread.
Does anyone have a realiable list (Looking directly at you Tim!) of interchangable part nos for fuel injectors that are KNOWN to work with the SC?
If you want to know why I'm asking, read on....otherwise I'm just trying to find out if Standard Motor Products' injector for the 89 SC is ACTUALLY compatible or if there's a history out there of 3rd party injectors NOT working well.
Thanks in advance...
K
I needed new injectors to replace gummed up ones that were preventing the car from starting after sitting for years. Rock Auto had a closeout on white lable injectors that were listed SPECIFICALLY for the SC/XR7. $30 each. Same price as rebuilding mine. So I bought them and they turned out to be SMP brand. A reputable company in my past experience. I put them in and that's when the car first started since acquiring it.
However, as anyone who has read the other thread knows, it's far from running properly and I'm not getting any fault codes at all. Take my word for it, or read the other thread, that I have swapped out at least one working version of almost every sensor and/or part related to fuel and ignition and even an ECU with no change. Only the BAC and MAF is still original. New belden wires and autolite plugs (AP2544 single tip I'm afraid, but still platinum...please tell me if it's at all possible for the single tip platinum vs double tip to cause a car to not hold any RPM without missing and stumbling, even idle).
So now I'm miserably looking at the new injectors I bought, and wondering if I have to take that all apart again.
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