Everything is overseas now, stanadyne included.
There's a few options for nozzles, one being what dcp and pensacola use which is a chinese duplicate of BB code injectors. You can also still get new and reman stanadyne nozzles for more cost than the chinese nozzles, with the new stanadynes being increasingly inconsistent out of the box and requiring some hand work to bring them up to par. I use new stanadyne nozzles on my stock replacement injectors, and reman extruded nozzles for my stage ones.
The market cornering comes from stanadyne and from suppliers not wanting to admit they are using Chinese nozzles. Stanadyne is very hardcore on keeping their parts, pricing, supply and specs a secret. They don’t want to work with you unless you pay a significant amount of money to buy their specific tooling and equipment to become and maintain their certification. Furthermore a certified shop can be stripped of their certification just by sharing info with another non certified shop, even if it’s just sharing an allowable spec for injector pop pressures. It’s a modern monopoly in a huge portion of the fuel market, so that’s why there’s little to no public info on a lot of the stanadyne parts.
I'd trust him to go through Chinese nozzles and rebuild a set of injectors for me if he determined they we're cost effective
It'd be interesting to know just where the nozzles where coming from it it were a more transparent situation.I don't know if dcp has one supplier for all of their injectors, but it doesn't matter which engine, they all have a extremely high failure rate. (Idi, cummins, psd, dmax, etc)
I'm sure you already know, but it's not as simple as just swapping a new nozzle to regain performance. The pintle could be worn, need to pop test them and match them as well.
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OP may want to purchase from DCP here in Memphis
Maybe it's only the box that was made in Italy? Who knows these days?"Product of Italy" is prominently displayed on the Stanadyne injector box but I wonder what percentage of the product is Italian and what other areas there is some creativity.
Although not a likely advocate, there must me some trade regulatlon deter ant. AUTOPARTS may get a free byeMaybe it's only the box that was made in Italy? Who knows these days?
Personally I would just trust your decision and products. You know more about them than I (most of us) do.Here’s the boxes the new stanadyne injectors come in, this was a batch I bought built last year in November. They do not say where they are made any longer.
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This discussion brings up something interesting I’ve been considering for awhile that I would like to hear y’all’s thoughts on...
Realistically, the only reason I use the new stanadyne parts in the stock replacements is because so many people think the new=good, when in reality the reman nozzles using the older materials are ten fold more consistent than the new nozzles out of the box, and I’m having to go in by hand and relap each nozzle to pintle on the new injectors to finish stanadyne’s job just to bring the new parts up to standard with what I’m getting from the remanufactured nozzles in the stage ones, which is the same finishing process we do to the remans to clean them up after EDM machining, but I’m paying more for the new parts, and spending an hour or two in labor getting them right. Were the remans I can send out to an American company for remanufacturing the pintle and nozzles, assemble with new USA made springs, and cost $75-100 less per set depending on how many I do at a time. With the extrusion work on the stage ones it adds another $100 a set, but if I used the same reman parts in the stock replacements I could sell them at $350 shipped for a set, versus the $425 I’m currently selling them at using the new stanadyne parts.
So my question to the Oilburners, would you rather be spending the extra money for the peace of mind of knowing the injectors are new and the appropriate hand work is being done to make sure they fire evenly, or would you rather have a lower price on the stock injectors with reman parts? I’ve considered selling two tiers of stock injectors, one with reman parts the other with new parts, but it would double the amount of inventory I would need to keep and for the volume I’m doing I don’t think it would be as feasible. Eventually the stanadyne parts will no longer be available, I plan to go to all reman parts before dipping into the Chinese nozzles, but we haven’t gotten there yet.
A lot of times new has a lower quality control than a reputable rebuild....I'd like new because I have no frame of reference. What's the wear item in these? I don't mind spending an extra $10 an injector if the likelihood is they're going to last longer.