Thread: What pulley size runs out the stock injectors?

Title pretty much says it. What is the smallest pulley that can be safely run with the stock injectors? If anyone knows, what pulley size causes the injector duty cycle to go above 85%??

Forget the injector cycle many many other things matter more.

KNOCK!?
TUNE?
FUEL TYPE?
CAM?
HEADS?
Stock Fuel Pump?
Fuel Pump rewire?
Gen5?
Gen3?

Yepp, understood that all those are important. Just wondering what would run the injectors out on an otherwise stock motor seeing no knock (I know this isn't really a feasible situation)

injectors are impacted by X number of mods and the efficiency of the engine not XXX hp or X.X pulley size.

Good points. Guess I should have given some more background:

I have have 3" DP, PLOG, intake, plugs/wires, and that's about it. I am using HP TUners to tune and data log. Right now, with my stock 3.8" pulley, I am seeing up to 77% injector duty cycle around 5,500 - 5,700 RPM. Just seems surprising to me that a lot of people are able to drop to 3.4" pulleys without running the stock injectors out. I remember throwing a 3.5" pulley on my other 99GTP last year and was already seeing every bit of 85+% duty cycle on my injectors around stock shift points/RPMs.

I am trying to decide if I want to go with a 3.4" pulley if it will mean running outside of what my stock fuel system can safely handle.

Originally Posted by Bio248

watch the IDC in pulse width. they can go fairly well beyond 100%. once the pulse width is something like 20-22ms then you're getting close to static.

hmm, interesting... I am not sure off hand how I view/monitor the pulse width but I will look in the software this evening when I have a chance to open up HP Tuners. Thanks for the info guys!

Originally Posted by Fivefingerdeathpunch

I run 18-19ms but only 80-85% duty cycle on my 3.6. But I also run it heavy on fuel, 10.9 to 11 AFR.

How much advance do you run? Do you see much knock with that setup?

Originally Posted by Iceman6669

Hmm that's odd... Your setup is similar to mine, and I run 16~ms IPW and 75% duty cycle. Granted I'm a touch leaner and a touch more timing.

Stock timing I am assuming? I already see up to 17 ms and 80+% duty cycle with stock timing on my stock pulley (some KR in there as well. up to 2-3 deg)