On Jan 30, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Alistair Bell wrote: > water injection is a known and > useful technique. it even can be applied to vanagons. Alistair, thank you for the write up. My real world experience was on 1.) Datsun 1200 that through a slight miscalculation ended up with 12:1 compression following a bit of hot-rodding. and 2.) Triumph TR4 w/ a Judson supercharger on a 9:1 compression motor. Spearco's Injectronic allowed both to run on $1.25 Chevron Custom Supreme rather than having to visit the local race shop twice a week for +104 racing fuel at about $4.00/gal. (1974 dollars....) Water injection works just fine. Make horsepower? No. Allow you to run compression ratios that ought not work? Yup. Higher compression ratio make more horsepower? Yup. Semantics. Jim |
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