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water injection



There was a system we used years ago called Octopus that was designed for 
this purpose. I don't if it is around anymore but the princple was sound, 
can't remember any more about. Might want to check a speed shop.

Brian

>From: "Scott F. Williams" <sfwilliams@comcast.net>
>To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: water injection
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:46:21 -0500
>
>Hey, I think I'm about to blaze some new trails here, but I figure I'll ask
>anyway. Does anyone on the list have any experience with water injection?
>I'm rethinking my plans for a fuel cell holding racing gasoline for use 
>when
>I activate my nitrous system.
>
>There's a lot of redundant plumbing and electrical controls that I'd have 
>to
>rig. -more weight and more stuff to go wrong. I'm thinking that a well
>implemented water injection system would do the trick just fine. I figure
>that I could activate in two situations: a) via whatever signal triggers 
>the
>nitrous, and b) whenever knock is detected.
>
>I could mount the water tank pretty much where ever I'd like. I figure I'd
>put it somewhere around the battery (in the back) with a couple of small
>windshield washer pumps run inline to keep the pressure and flow up. The
>minor plumbing challenge would be rigging a distribution block and lines to
>each throttlebody. And, of course, I'll have to find some spray nozzles 
>with
>a nice atomization pattern and the correct flow.
>
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