16v Injector Shrouds...

[indiana_red@hotmail.com (Ken Bates)]

Were talking about the brown hard plastic things that thread in with a large
allen wrench  13MM or so?
I have a spare intake manifold that I am cleaning up and noticed these as
well.  verry brittle and all were broken to some extent.

Ken
'79 Scirocco 16v project "McFly"
"...it's working...It's Working...!!"
'86 16v (organ donor)
VORTEX:  "Indiana Red"


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Erickson" <ranahan@charter.net>
To: "Russ Tom" <rtom@yahoo.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: 16v Injector Shrouds...


> I bet half the people out there have broken shrouds.  Your
> injectors will be hotter (especially just sitting in
> traffic) than the design intended.  I don't think it
> really hurts much.  It will cook your o-rings a little
> faster.  BTW, if the shroud on cylinder #1 is broken, none
> of them work.  The air is drawn in at #1, then passes over
> 2, 3, 4 and goes into the intake manifold.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
>   Russ Tom <rtom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Hello All,
> >
> >Recently, when I had my cylinder head p/p, etc., I
> >found that a couple of my injector shrouds had pieces
> >broken off of them.  Other than the fact that my
> >head/engine chewed up the broken pieces, are there any
> >problem running the injectors with the broken shrouds?
> >  I'm going to be changing them out soon, but until
> >then am I causing any damage to my injectors, etc.?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Russ
> >
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