Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:58:07 -0500
Reply-To: David Milo <dellaone@GMAIL.COM>
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From: David Milo <dellaone@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Hydrogen help for the Vanagons
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Also known in the high powered aircraft reciprocating engine world as ADI:
Anti Detonant Injection.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@cfu.net>wrote:
> I was under the impression that airliners use water injection for
> takeoff and altitude establishment.....
>
> I had a Spearco dual stage Water Injection system on my dual Cadron
> set up in my 71 loaf. It worked very well right up until the micro
> small injector jets would lime up from hard water or even the
> smallest piece of crud. I always wondered if they ever solved that
> problem. I used distilled water and still had trouble.
>
> DM&FS
>
>
> At 01:02 PM 1/30/2011, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>> water injection you say? Water injection? Like in the sixties when
>> all the scam shops were promoting running around with a jug of water
>> draining into the carburetor? Lots of those guys ended up making
>> license plates. mcneely
>> ---- VWBrain@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> > In a message dated 1/30/2011 10:28:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> > mcneely4@COX.NET writes:
>> >
>> > You say that what you have set up is electrolysis. I would agree that
>> > getting enough fuel out of electrolysis aboard a vehicle is literally a
>> > "fool's errand." One would (1) consume more energy than the
>> fuel would deliver,
>> > and (2) the batteries required would fill up the vehicle. So I am quite
>> > confused as to (1) what relationship the device you have set up is to
>> what
>> > the original poster is talking about, and (2) whether what the original
>> > poster is talking about has much to do with reality, given that
>> industry has
>> > spent ages and tons of money working to come up with workable
>> fuel cells for
>> > application, while this guy says he is doing it in his garage and plans
>> to
>> > install it on his Vanagon. Interesting ............... .
>> >
>> > mcneely
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > hey guys there was a guy that had this setup in a bay window that came
>> to
>> > high country campout every year. Hads it in there for years ,
>> seemed to work
>> > but only as an additive to the system, not for running oN competely.
>> said
>> > it did increases if fuel mileage. seems like water injection would
>> > probably work just about the same. bunch of guys are running the
>> water injection
>> > on their aircooled vannie and showing a decrease in the head temps.
>> later
>> > mark d
>>
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>
>
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