Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 00:47:44 +0100 From: "Lineone" <adriannopsamone.org> Subject: Re: Water Injection
And by the way, if you find the idea of injecting water a little unnatural ... The basic chemical reaction that is taking place in an internal combustion engine is the exothermic (heat producing) reaction: Fuel + Oxygen ----> Carbon Dioxide + Water. Of course there are impurities such as sulphur, and incomplete combustion which yields Carbon Monoxide in addition to Carbon Dioxide, but essentially that's it. So water is there all the time. And always has been. Every cycle of every piston. All over the world. So why don't you see it? Well you do. On a cold day, much of the "smoke" coming from cars' exhausts is actually steam (the rest is mostly vaporised oil). And surely we've all driven behind a car at some time in a traffic jam and watched water spitting or even spilling fron the exhast pipe? Well this will be a vehicle with a cold engine and cold exhaust pipe, which is condensing the steam from combution back to water. Follow the same car for more than a few minutes and the water should dry up (except maybe in Winter). That's one of the reasons why short journeys are bad a for a vehicle - water stays in the exhust pipe and rusts it from the inside! Adrian Dan Schleifer <dannopsamis.cc> wrote in message news:3AEEF798.5337187Enopsamis.cc... > Sounds good to me on the K&N front, though I looked through their > product listing and couldn't find the heat shield or the cool pipe. I > did see in some of the pictures of bolt-on kits they have for other > makes what you are refering to with the shield though. I'm going to get > on the phone with K&N and see if they can do something for me. > > On the water injection tip, I was actually reading about that after I > got off work yesterday, and was going to ask the group what experiences > they've had. There is a company called spearco that sells these systems > that mist a fine amount of water into the intake manifold which is > supposed to greatly decrease temperature and make the air denser. It > seems a little wierd to me at first to be injecting water into my > engine, but if the consensus is that it is harmless I may try it. > Anyone out there have experience with this? > > Thanks, -Dan > > > -- > Dan Schleifer | 804.242.5088 | dannopsamis.cc > Fenris Security
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