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Smokey used water injection to keep his engine from detonating. It was posted on his website but now it's not there anymore. That was 17 years ago.

Slim3 What was the flow rate of the methanol/water injected in the 318? Did I miss that?

Thankyou Pat for saying on topic. This tread is about the chemistry of combustion. Pat. Was it in the "Glassman" studies"? Regards Mark

140airpower The time from spark too flamefront.

Correct me if I'm wrong at ambient humidity levels below 35% an engine will generally put out less power. Now the same engine and conditions with the ambient humidity 45% or higher the engine will put out less power. It the middle levels the engine will put out little more power. We all know...

Now I know why my simple steam injection did increase power. It helps speed combustion. As for the Japanese torpedo engines. It would be easy too backfeed the steam exhaust too make that engine perform and even last.

Link works for me. Thats where I found it.

http://www.not2fast.com/NACA/naca-report-531.pdf Maybe this is why there are some claims of more power with water vapor injection?

Smokey's engine was steam injected. Can be simply done by a water separator like the one i'm working on. No tank too fill or freeze.

Just back feed a small amount of steam and use the argon for the first time the engine fires.

There's a simple solution. Go down the page and read what mpgmike has to say about it. http://speedtalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9115

I use only distilled water. It's completely vaporized before I inject it in the intake. No evaporated cooling in intake. Some more details later. Here's some basic combustion science. From: Robert Harris <bob@bobthecomputerguy.com> To: DIY_EFI@lists.diy-efi.org Subject: Water and its effect...

Hi all, my first post, Good point "beekeeper" I have an old non-computerized 351c. When I lean the carb out to get misfire, then turn my water injection on the misfire gos away. The humidity helps the initiation of combustion. By the way I do get more HP at the rear wheels without changing...