Quad 4 injector upgrade

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Quad 4 injector upgrade

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So I read on a post about this the quad 4s stock flow rate is 32lb/hr, I want to upgrade to I think 34Lbs cause its in between the typical swap which are brown top ford injectors with 36/lb hr I'm just looking for a little extra umph out of her with the 226 cams so I need to know what injector design/car I would need these out of any help would be appricated thanks


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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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32lb to 34lb won't make much of a difference especially if you aren't logging and seeing it reach max duty cycle. Only if your in a 100% duty cycle or higher a larger injector will help out. Otherwise you won't notice a thing.


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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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First, the stockers are 26-28# injectors - Second, they are low impedance injectors - Many of the Bosch injectors are high impedance and the Quads are low impedance. I am currently in the same boat, but in my case, I'm just looking for some good stockers.


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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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DanteGTZ wrote:First, the stockers are 26-28# injectors - Second, they are low impedance injectors - Many of the Bosch injectors are high impedance and the Quads are low impedance. I am currently in the same boat, but in my case, I'm just looking for some good stockers.
Ummm, okay, I am not a Quad guy, but I had a SOHC Quad '92 Grand Am and two 2.4 Twin Cam Z-24s, and a 2001 Grad Am. I'm still not an expert here, but to my knowledge, the low-impedance injectors did not appear on the Quad family until about 2000 or 2001 on the 2.4 Twin Cams. They are drastically different-looking from the older Multec-style injectors I've seen on the older Quads. My Z-24 has a '01 2.4 engine, and I had to swap-out the low-impedance injectors for the original '97 injectors when I swapped the engine in. I also swapped the engine on the '01 GA, with one from a '98, and the injectors were again totally different and had to be swapped back over. Now, I have no idea what flow-rate any of these are, and I am not 100% certain regarding the impedance of the Vin-A H.O. Quads in the Berettas, but again I don't think they were low impedance in this era...


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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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according to some spec sheets i've pulled through alldata, all Q4(meaning DOHC, no idea on the SOHC) used low impedance until quite late in production.

because of this, they're operated in a peak/hold method, so you'll either need to upgrade them with more low impedance units or change the ECM wiring slightly to allow for saturated operation with high impedance units.


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RobertISaar wrote:according to some spec sheets i've pulled through alldata, all Q4(meaning DOHC, no idea on the SOHC) used low impedance until quite late in production.
because of this, they're operated in a peak/hold method, so you'll either need to upgrade them with more low impedance units or change the ECM wiring slightly to allow for saturated operation with high impedance units.
SOHC SHOULD be the same, I can't see that anything except the PROM would be different between Vin A (H.O.), D (L.O.), and 3 (SOHC) ECMs. Okay, like I said I'm not an expert, but the low impedance injectors used on the newer 3400s look exactly like the later Twin Cam injectors (I doubt flow-rate is the same, but the body of the injector is). That means very little, of course. Use a multi-meter on the injector terminals, if you read ~12 Ohms, it is a high impedance, 2.5-3 Ohms is a low impedance... I'll try to measure the ones I have some time, and see what I've got for sure. As I understand it, the high impedance injectors are much more common because of the lower operating temperature and therefore greater reliability. Low impedance injectors seem to be fairly common on imports and higher-performance engines that require greater fuel-flow and faster-responding injectors. Anyone who has absolute knowledge on what is correct want to chime-in and put the rest of us (particularly me) in line? :wink:


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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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no MPFI/SFI 60V6 used low impedance injectors.


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Maybe Impedance is being confused with amperage...

The Quad has low-impedance, high amperage "peak and hold" injectors

The V6 has high-impedance, low amperage "saturated" injectors


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Again, the shape of the injector has little to do with how it functions, but it does imply similar construction and functionality.

I did an engine-swap for a friend with an '03 3400 Impala several years ago, the replacement engine came from a similar-year Alero. The salvage-yard that sold him the new engine told him emphatically that his new engine used low-impedance injectors that would fry his ECU if the engine was going in an older car, so I was basing my knowledge in part on that statement (I've also read on the ultra trust-worthy internet that the newer 3400s used low-impedance injectors) -but maybe there is a reason why that particular person was working in a salvage-yard instead of a mechanic's shop. :wink:

Here are some pics of various injectors applicable to this discussion:
Pictures courtesy of Rock Auto
Pictures courtesy of Rock Auto
Of course, none of this is proof of high vs low impedance -a multi-meter will prove that to me one way or another.*
It also does nothing to inform regarding flow-rates, sorry.

*Edit: The general concensus does seem to be that the Quads are low-impedance (high amperage/high current) injectors -and there are a lot of people here who know a lot more about that than I do, so sorry if my oar is rowing backwards here, I was just trying to clear something up that seemed wrong to me. Thanks for the input guys.
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Re: Quad 4 injector upgrade

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The Multec 2 injector is high impedance. Nothing would happen and nothing is different between a 99 and 2000 PCM. The Multec 2 injectors do generally run at higher pressures however.


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