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Birthday coming up and rather than the usual sh1t that old fa*ts like me get - I thought about some more mods. Sadly, the full list went south due to some employment issues. Anyhow, the xspurt 1000's were already paid for so they went into the BF (Manual). The existing Bosch Green tops (440cc) were right out of duty cycle capacity at the top end and the thinking was that just maybe the 1000's might tip it into the 300 club. The Result = No good in the power department. Perth showed ~31 degrees yesterday and it was more than that in the dyno cell. The factory F6 intercooler was really out of its league at 272RWKW with intake temps at 57c+ on run three and nothing would fix the resulting detonation (using 98 fuel.) Best run before all of this new work was 288 on a very much cooler day - so, the final tune saw power output down. Open to suggestions on an intercooler upgrade - leaning towards a bar/plate from a good supplier (plus some other items on re-employment..) However, what are the 1,000's like? Damn good IMO. The old injectors produced good start up and idle quality along with quite good low speed driveability. It is subjective but the 1,000's seem better to me. Idle is dead smooth at 750 (tacho) and the car will just piddle along in the gears in traffic with no surge or issues with returning to idle. Fuel usage - the same it seems - not using the on- board computer but a fill to fill measure - took it for a longish drive last night just for the hell of it. So, if you are going down the injector path these things are pretty good and of course, set you up for ethanol fuel.
