Paul Don't forget what we discussed in another thread, I thought it deserved it's own thread with the price of fuel going through the roof. I did countless hours of research and builds on this stuff over 40 years ago as a teenager. It's not rocket science but I found most people today still don't get it. Water injection is not to produce more horsepower, any fool can do that. It's meant to moderate the combustion and cylinder temperature so we can lean out the fuel/air mixture. Normally we cannot lean out the mixture without pre-detonation or ping and overheating. By leaning out the fuel/air ratio we can generate the same power using less fuel. You see the amateurs designing most engines add extra fuel to try to keep the cylinder temps down and keep the catalytic converter hot. This obviously wastes a great deal of fuel which doesn't need to be the case. Water injection solves these problems and we can remove most of the crap these incompetent engineers have added. Here's another fallacy most have bought into. The turbocharger wasn't initially designed to increase horsepower, any fool can do that. It was designed to scavenger the heat energy from the exhaust and transfer it back to the engine. The waste heat drove the turbo, the turbo increased the intake pressure, the increased pressure applied more force to the downward moving piston and also increased the compression ratio on the upstroke. It was designed for better mileage not more horsepower. Think of it this way, the turbocharger is a gas turbine which was designed to use the engine like a combustor. The engine produces heat and we can use the turbo/gas turbine to extract heat energy and add it too the engine. We could use a gas turbine/generator and an electric motor which some did. However it's easier to use the turbo air pressure to boost the intake pressure to decrease fuel consumption. As well, by using a turbo and water injection we get the best of both worlds. So any fool can increase power just add more fuel/air and bump the compression. I could teach a six year old school girl how to do it no problem. The problem is that nobody seems to have a clue how to increase mileage without sacrificing power and reliability. Regards AC
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