WTB ALH injector bodies.

[Toby]

I fear that I may have gone bigger than I wanted with the .184s in an 1mm IP automatic and am thinking that I should probably go back to some new .154s. I would rather fit the new nozzles to another set of bodies, so I could swap back and forth as I play with the car. So, does anybody have a set floating around that they would part with? I do not care about the condition of the nozzles, just that the injector bodies be intact and un-teanagered.

The car runs like a raped ape, but I fear my mileage may have gone down 25%. It will spin the tires  with no assistance from a dead stop and go from 55 to almost 100 in the time it takes to count to six.

[theman53]

If you didn't do the tune the mileage will be horrible. Get a Malone stage 2 and it will go up. Get anyone's tune and it will go up, but Malone used to support a lot of this site. Even a stage 1 tune will cut the smoke down and get better mpg

[Toby]

I am not worried about the smoke; it can be useful for tailgaters. I really don't want to spend the money for a "tune" or have the car down that long. That's why I am looking for another set of injector bodies. Of course, if anybody has a "tune" for a 2000 ALH auto for cheap, I would be interested.

[theman53]

Any bigger than stock nozzles without a tune it will hurt your fuel economy and have higher EGT. If someone is a Malone tuning dealer near you and you have 249.00 for a stage 1.5 *I recommend EGR delete as well* it takes about 6 minutes to load your cars factory specs and upload the new tune...less time than it takes to take the cover and injection lines off to swap injectors. You will be happy you did it once you do, until then it seems like a waste, but it isn't.

[vanbcguy]

I second TheMan....

There's lots of compromises in the stock tune.  A mild tune will almost certainly improve economy plus you'll have an all around quicker car. 

[Toby]

The problem is that a lot of rich kids have TDIs, so things tend to be more expensive here and more time consuming, since they do not want the rich kids to know that it only takes 6 minutes. I guaranty that it will take 1/2 a day and they will want me to leave the car. I am sure the nearest Malone dealer is in Seattle and I am too busy to piss away most of a day not making any money.

Why would I want EGR delete when it costs 2 MPG and slows warm up? Cleaning the intake every 5 years is not that big a deal.

At this point putting in a set or .154s sounds like a much better way to go.

[bbob203]

With a tune it wont cost mpg's may actually add and malone offers free dynamic idle (with his tunes) which mitigates warm up issues when ambient temp is below x degrees the idle increases until the water temp reaches a certain degree.

[Toby]

That's not what real world testing seems to indicate. I would do the Dynamic EGR anyway. I went to the web site and there is not a price anywhere except for the Flashzilla, which is the way I would go, if I do. But again not a hint of what a tune will cost me for the Flashzilla. And I hear that he doesn't, so phone calls are out.

[theman53]

Email him. I went with the flashzilla and a stage 2 and stage 3 tune. IIRC the flashzilla was 190 and the tunes were 249 each.

In your real world the EGR delete may lose 2 mpg. In my real world I gained...I added the tune but with the tune and delete I get 53mpg consistently with a peak of 59.8. Winter I saw a low of 41.x with tons of idling.

[Toby]

I am not interested in spending that kind of money. That is 30% of what I paid for the car.

[vanbcguy]

You can check out these guys:

http://blacksmoke.co.uk/

There's a few folks on TDIClub using their tunes with success.

[Toby]

That looks kind of interesting. I have to work until 2:00 am tonight. I will poke around the web site before I go to bed.
Thanks for the heads up.
J