Date:         Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:56:40 -0500
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Hydrogen help for the Vanagons
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
In-Reply-To:  <DE5AD4F0-2B0E-44C2-944F-B2ECED4DB646@shaw.ca>
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Hi Volks,

Summer of 2007 I ran water injection on my baywindow bus for about two
weeks. I got a noticeable improvement on power and fuel economy. This
was just after installing a high-compression 1.7L 411 engine in my bus.
This engine actually made more HP than the 2L bus motor, and with a
free-flowing "harley piped" exhaust on it, it was a blast to drive.

BUT.

Due to a design deficiency in my implementation, my setup delivered more
water to the 3-4 side of the engine than to the 1-2 side. After a 2-hour
highway run the 1-2 side spit the rings off the pistons and the
experiment was concluded.

If I had more time, $$$ and engines to experiment with I am pretty sure
I could have resolved the issue and come up with a viable system. But in
the actual scheme of things it was simpler to just go buy a watercooled
Vanagon. So I did.


Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
Toronto, Ontario Canada
197x Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
1987 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (ND Graphics graphics wrap)
1988 Wolfsburg Weekender Hardtop (Colleen's ride)
www.pottsfamily.ca

BUSES OF THE CORN - AUGUST 12-14th, 2011
www.busesofthecorn.ca


On 1/30/2011 2:23 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> FYI, water injection is a known and
> useful technique. it even can be applied to vanagons.
>
>