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The POD's can be "fed" (like most injectors) so that the smoke is reduced and the mileage is held fairly well.
I have had some success by carefully tuning the injection pump, and custom grinding my AFC cone so the fueling comes in at higher boost levels (that's were you would be stuffing your foot into it and want the fuel). This helps reduce around town smoke and also the highway smoke if you tromp on it hard.
The thinnest washer that comes in the POD kit is the one to use.
We have not had any secondary problems when using the twenty thou washers and the do seem to help the idle/low end smoke.
If you really minimize the fueling to these things, they still give you a good shot in jockeys'... .
One of the reasons I liked the 185's was because they could be "up fed" to start to perform like the POD's fairly easily. At a certain point they overlap from were the 185's left off and the POD's picked up was not bad. I was able to bring the POD's down to what would roughly be described as the upper end of the 185 range including HP/smoke/EGT's/response/boost.
The tip design is the root cause of the haze at idle. The POD injetors are a large sac injector and no matter how hard you try there will almost always be a tiny bit of fuel leaving the tip after the primary high pressure fuel cloud has been fired.
You can make further adjustments by increased timing. . within reason. This will help to keep any residual release of fuel, from the tip, inside the burn cycle in the cylinder.
At least that's my take on them...
bob.
I have had some success by carefully tuning the injection pump, and custom grinding my AFC cone so the fueling comes in at higher boost levels (that's were you would be stuffing your foot into it and want the fuel). This helps reduce around town smoke and also the highway smoke if you tromp on it hard.
The thinnest washer that comes in the POD kit is the one to use.
We have not had any secondary problems when using the twenty thou washers and the do seem to help the idle/low end smoke.
If you really minimize the fueling to these things, they still give you a good shot in jockeys'... .
One of the reasons I liked the 185's was because they could be "up fed" to start to perform like the POD's fairly easily. At a certain point they overlap from were the 185's left off and the POD's picked up was not bad. I was able to bring the POD's down to what would roughly be described as the upper end of the 185 range including HP/smoke/EGT's/response/boost.
The tip design is the root cause of the haze at idle. The POD injetors are a large sac injector and no matter how hard you try there will almost always be a tiny bit of fuel leaving the tip after the primary high pressure fuel cloud has been fired.
You can make further adjustments by increased timing. . within reason. This will help to keep any residual release of fuel, from the tip, inside the burn cycle in the cylinder.
At least that's my take on them...
bob.
(no, can't do that,I already told him they were his)
You may be right Sam. Maybe I am hooked. I just wanted to get around 28 psi or so of boost, now look where I'm at and what I still want to do. Darn, guess the Pastor really got me converted!
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