Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:40:58 +0100 From: "Frank" <jeanette.dyngesethnopsamnet.se> Subject: Re: Water injection?
Why donīt you use both intercooler and a high pressure water injection mixt with metanol it works fine for me njahnopsamejanews.com skrev i meddelandet <719t5l$vqe$1nopsam1.dejanews.com>... >I have this idea for cheap charge cooling. What it involves is using a >universal window washer kit as a means of cooling the air intake. I have seen >one of these kits for 25 pounds (about $40) from a kit car parts specialists. >What you get is a small tank with a built in electric pump, several feet of >tubing, two jets and a switch. The way I have envisaged using this is to >mount the jets on the metal side plate just in front of the inter-cooler. The >water will thus be sprayed directly onto the fins of the intercooler rather >than into the intercooler itself. This way I don't have to worry about >controlling the amount of water sprayed since it is best to keep the >intercooler as cool as possible. Even though the water is not in direct >contact with the intake air we can still expect a substantial cooling effect >due to the fact that the heat capacity of water is many times (orders of >magnitude) greater than air. However several things worry me about this >approach. 1) Will this "quenching" damage the inter-cooler? 2) Will the steam >produced screw with the engine electronics, since the air flow meter is just >behind the inter-cooler? I have some pretty good electronic thermoniters >available so I will do some tests to try and gauge just what can be expected. >I will post the results soon. NJH. > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own