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road car, burnout car, track car? microtech is very basic and will limit some of your power spread and control

don't get me wrong, plenty of people have assembled engines and they last, sometimes they have the right skills, sometimes they have just been lucky

it's all about clearances, too tight and things nip, too loose and noises or things gets hammered

you're right, they are not hard to put together etc, but there is a skill involved in getting all clearances matching and correct, so that it lives and is not excessively noisy. Even some experienced engine builders build them and they are noisy which means the knock sensors can't be used

I would think if their was an oil gallery issue there would be pick up on the cam journals before any roller/lobe damage was done

recalls are normally only used for safety concerns

Although Deka's are not as nice as some of the other options out there, they can be made to work without some of the issues mentioned

Have seem cam wear and the rollers were fine

have never seen Loctite on a FG turbo stud, maybe I haven't looked hard enough?? The FG threads are different which eliminates most of the coming loose issues

Ford do not put loctite on the manifold studs, the threads are tight, and what you have experienced is what happens on a regular basis

if you think you have been ripped off, give fair trading a call

legally you have to pay for any work you have agreed to, if you don't they can keep your car until a time you do while charging you for storage while waiting, and if a certain time passes they can then sell the car, they would have to give you any extra money from the sale if their costs have been met or can follow you up to make up the difference if it sold for less than what was owing

if a diff needed a new centre and gear set, I imagine it could start to get close to 3k if it's a sedan, a burnout leaving their premises would void a warranty

didn't your dyno guy explain any of this to you?

diameter may be the same depending on what tyre was used but weight placement will be different with the 20's, but either diameter change or weight placement change will affect the reading because it affects how the car accelerates on the road/track

it's all about physics, and forget the 1/4 mile remark as that would change also

Both injectors appear to work as well as each other, we have great results with either so to say one is inferior to the other is rubbish, one has been around for a while so has a more well known name. We do not push any 1 brand of injector on a customer or any other product for that matter, they make their own choices, some are informed well before they come in, some are misinformed by some of the rubbish that gets posted by people that think they are informed but are really far from it. In my shop, the customer gets what they are happy with.

KPM injectors are recommended buy some shops as they realise they are considerably cheaper for those customers that are working to tight budgets and they have the correct data and work as well as other brands which are quite dearer. If there was good profit margins in them, you would see the ebay sellers that sell from home selling them quite a bit cheaper than shops are. There is better profit in drilling stock injectors and selling them, or selling deka 60's

xspurt supply deadtime info only and is not applicable with the tuning data, unless they have changed in the last year or so

have you considered Pecky's?

your exhaust note will not change when the wastegate opens, the noise on gear change is the spark cut part of the torque management, there are mulitple things it can and will do to do to keep things under control, any answer here will be a guess unless the car is being tested

sounds like torque management issues,

can hear it through the exhaust?

the 60's are a better spray pattern than the 80's but low speed control is not great in the Deka's. At this stage, only the factory injectors appear to have the 100% correct spray pattern, but the spray from the KPM and ID's does not appear to cause issues, infact my wifes G6ET averaged a trip of 7.8 l/100klms with a set of KPM's in place

deka 80 lb injectors spray pretty much onto the divider in the cylinder head and cause wall wetting and puddling so fuel economy would be better with an injector with a better spray pattern, 14.7:1 is very lean for E85 even at cruise