Re: Has Anyone installed a Water/Methenol injector
I used to have one on my maxed out pinto that I used to buzz to 9000. Anyway the water and some alcohol is added to cool and retard detenation so that you could run crappy fuel or in a push on a hot day get by with high inlet temperatures and very compression numbers like 11 to one.
You can not burn water, it goes to steam and helps retard knock. The water going in on an engine that has o2 sensor and knock sensor sort of loses performance as that displaces oxygen. Its a band-aid for n/a type engines and I could not see any gain that you could get. Alcohol is bad any way as it had less energy, but if you burn enough of it your engine gets really COOL from the evaporation effect.
If it was good it would be in Detroit........Was used as "Full military war emergency power settings" on airplanes that needed to push the blower into a danger zone to keep the plane and pilot from being BINGOed.
Id suggest that the water sprayer would do more to cool the inlet h/e on the crossfire to gain evaporative cooling benefits. But you need to use distilled ( 68 cents per gallon at WalMart ) water to keep from cruding up the fins with deposits ( extra insulation ).
I even tried an electronic water sprayer on a Daytona to MIST the tires on hot autocross runs to control the slick temperatures. It worked but then I found the tires were not getting that hot anyway, oopse engineering a non-problem again, bad Dilbert, bad Dilbert.
Enjoy, Woody