What is the shape of the four fuel injectors and of the fuel pressure regulator which is located inside the fuel pump module in the gas tank.

Tiny
ALEX STATHAS
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  • 2014 NISSAN VERSA
  • 1.6L
  • 4 CYL
  • 2WD
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  • 85,650 MILES
What is the shape of the fuel injectors? I am asking because I was browsing them in the Advance Auto Parts website and they look like very thin objects and their electrical connectors look a lot bigger than the fuel injector bodies, are they shaped like needles? Do they have electromagnetic coils, needle valve armatures, and needle valves? Do they have O-ring seals at their top and bottom sites? I am asking because I can't figure out the answers to the above questions just by looking at the Advance Auto Parts website's pictures of the fuel injectors and because throughout my life I have seen many different shapes of fuel injectors from throttle body fuel injectors with a ball valve shape (needle valve in the Geo Metro throttle body fuel injection) to multi-port and sequential fuel injectors with needle valves and large electromagnetic coils to sequential fuel injectors with disk-shaped valves, are the 2014 Nissan Versa SV fuel injectors energized sequentially in sequence with engine valve timing or are they energized continuously like the pre 1992 Ford Tempo or pre 1991 Ford Taurus? I am asking because I see the SFI abbreviation in the vehicle's emission sticker under the hood of the Nissan Versa, and what happens if those thin fuel injectors go bad or malfunction? Will they prevent the engine from starting up or will they just cause poor performance problems like a rough idle and loss of power? Can their O-ring seals leak and if they leak will they dilute the engine oil? Now let's go to the fuel pressure regulator which I was told earlier that it's located inside the electric fuel pump module in the gas tank and it's not externally located, does that internal fuel pressure regulator have a diaphragm spring, a diaphragm, and a fuel return valve like external regulators used to have? If it goes bad will the engine fail to start or will it run poorly and can it send too much fuel to the fuel injectors and dilute the engine oil? Thank you in advance for your valuable information and I am sorry my post was too long, but I needed to be thorough and relate great details. Alex Stathas
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 AT 11:31 PM

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Tiny
KEN L
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Hello Alex,

Here is a guide on fuel injectors so you can see how the system works and I have included the fuel injectors and fuel pressure regulator in the images below so you can see what they look like in your car.

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-fuel-injection-systems-work

When an injector goes bad the engine can misfire or the injector can leak fuel externally. This guide can show you how to test a fuel injector which will help you understand better:

https://www.2carpros.com/articles/how-to-test-a-fuel-injector

Here is how the fuel injector is changed which shows you what the fuel injector looks like as well. The fuel pressure regulator is inside the fuel pump. Check out the images below.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023 AT 12:52 PM
Tiny
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Thank you Ken, the reply and the two articles were very informative and I saw a spring on top of the fuel injector diagram and I saw the two O-rings, the electromagnetic coils and the needle valve armature and the needle valve and I got enlightened about my four fuel injectors, man I knew it, airplanes had fuel injection since the 1950s but the 1986 Mercury Lynx Wagon I had 30 years ago couldn't supply an electric fuel pump in its gas tank, sensors including an air flow sensor which is indicative of sequential electronic fuel injection as opposed to the manifold absolute pressure sensor which indicates non-sequential electronic fuel injection, and finally four fuel injectors and the 1986 Mercury Lynx Wagon's carburetor kept stalling and wouldn't start up because it lacked the high pressure of the electric fuel pump to force fuel to the combustion chamber instead of a 6 psi mechanical fuel pump just filling up the carburetor float bowl while a 65 psi electric fuel pump forces the fuel to the combustion chamber that's why electronic fuel injection starts so easily and you don't have to push the gas pedal to start it up, yes airplanes needed electronic fuel injection because they could have crashed with that lousy carburetor but in 1986 they had the technology to equip the Mercury Lynx with electronic fuel injection and all other Mercury models in 1986 were equipped with electronic fuel injection, but the 2014 Nissan Versa SV has sequential electronic fuel injection, a coil-on-plug direct distributor less ignition and electric power steering that can't leak power steering fluid because it doesn't have those unfair power steering hoses and all I have to do in a car with the above technology is three month interval bulk synthetic oil changes at Walmart, thank you again Ken and I am very disappointed that 30 years ago I had a carburetor and I didn't have the coil-on-plug ignition and electric power steering technological advances.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2023 AT 3:27 PM
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Friday, February 17th, 2023 AT 11:23 AM

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