[PT-Dave]

quote:Originally posted by Kirby

Would someone please look up ANY statement by dodgetweaker, my search on these pages came up blank.

Kirby! Lighten up! Who ruffled your feathers? If you had clicked on the link in espoke's post, you would have seen dodgetweaker's reply to your same question in the SRT forums. Here is the link again: http://www.srtforums.com/forums/show...threadid=12118

I have inspected my old injectors and I respectfully disagree with your conclusions. I am not an engineer, but I do not see your argument as plausible. The plastic ring that you claim is for reducing heat soak and keeping the injector from making metal to metal contact can have no thermal cooling properties. How would a PLASTIC part be able to cool anything within the confines of the intake? It cannot. As for keeping clearance, I submit that if the plastic ring does come into contact with the intake (which I doubt), that the removal (or deletion) of it will provide even more clearance for the injector tip itself. How can the metal tip expand to fill the space taken by the ring? Again, it cannot. The o-ring seals are what keeps the injector centered and away from metal to metal contact. Otherwise, they would leak. The clips on the fuel rail keep the injectors from being pulled down by gravity. I certainly trust DCX and MOPAR/PVO engineers to give us the correct parts and not someone who constantly looks for something to complain and/or argue about.

If you don't like what you see, then don't get it and be quiet. This is getting real old. Oh, I know I don't have to read your posts, but I will continue to do so. And at some point, like now, I will have to have my say in the matter. This time, in my opinion, you are dead wrong. Until you have substantive proof about your claims you should keep them to yourself.

You are beating on a non-issue. Give it up!