I wonder if demand has so far outstripped supply they are back to what they were doing 5 or 6 years ago, one number that was a reman # and the actual injectors a mix of new and reman. That might be true as have now seen 2 cases of injectors with a supposedly new part # have failures just like the remans do. Of course, there is no telling when buying from random sources what actually gets packaged in a box but when the number says new and the price is around $350 and several fail shortly after install it does beg the question.
Looks like BBI might be one of the few sources or real new injectors.
On the filters, did you ever track down the spces on the AD FF100-2 filter? I see you had found them on the FF100-3 and that was always advertised as 2 um filter when it was actually a 5 um absolute.
I agree with the above and have been following this thread and reading up on older threads because I think injectors are in my near future I too am completely confused on the numerous types of injectors. By types I am referring to how the word "new" and "remanufactured" are seemingly used interchangeably.
In my mind a "new" injector is one that has never been installed in another engine at all. A new injector is built from entirely virgin brand new components, assembled and tested. If I am buying a new injector, there should not be a core charge, because the vendor should not need my cores to restock their supply. It is comprised of all new parts, period. A new injector could be modified for more flow and sold as such, but the injector still starts out as new.
A remanufactured injector is one that has been in service. It is removed completely disassembled, brought back into spec (if possible, otherwise discarded) with new parts and then bench tested to be within OEM spec, or modified for its intended flow. I would expect to pay a core charge for a remanufactured injector. To further muddy up this area I am now seeing "Long Life" versions? What the heck is "Long Life" versus standard? Long life means they actually did the job right and the lesser versions are borderline junk?
A used injector is one that has been bench tested to see if it is in spec, then resold.
I liken this whole situation to replacing a starter. When you buy a starter nowadays, "standard rebuild" - we degreased someone elses junk, "gold rebuild" -we degreased and actually tested it and replaced some parts (but not all the parts and we didn't put our best man on the job), "platinum rebuild" we degreased it, disassembled it, rebuilt it using quality parts and workmanship and tested it.
When the time comes, it will be BBi for me as most of the others seem to be in that gray area where you can't really be sure that what you are paying for is in fact a brand new injector.
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