Water injection
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Have any of you turbo boys thought or heard about running a water injection system? From what I've found it's supposed to be the best way to increase power output on a forced induction engine without having to by expensive fuel computers.
For those of you that don't know what it is?
Basically you inject an atomized stream of water into your intake stream after the compressor (turbo) put before the TB. This effectively lowers the intake air temp giving you a denser air charge and eliminates predetonation. This allows you to come much closer to the ideal air:fuel ratio of 14.7:1. -
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I've got a buddy that was going to run water injection... spray on his Air to Water aftercooler (mounted after a twin screw blower in the upper intake)
Never got a chance to run it...ran into issues with his new heads and ended up tearing the motor down again (and in turn decided to go farther and pick up a new block)....car should be running next spring.
The way it sounded....if you knew what you were doing and had hours of dyno time available, it was going to be a real good thing.
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take a look at your sig and think about whether or not its worth the headache
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It's realy not the same. You have to run a pressure sensor in your intake (MAP) so it it only injects after a certain pressure. The water is then absorbs some of the heat for the intake air and is passed through the engine where it leaves as steam through the exhaust.
From what I've read it is completely worth it if you want to run a lot of boost. You can run much higher boost without having to retard the timing or dump a shit load of useless fuel in just to keep it from predetonating.
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Schwanger wrote:
It's realy not the same. You have to run a pressure sensor in your intake (MAP) so it it only injects after a certain pressure. The water is then absorbs some of the heat for the intake air and is passed through the engine where it leaves as steam through the exhaust.From what I've read it is completely worth it if you want to run a lot of boost. You can run much higher boost without having to retard the timing or dump a shit load of useless fuel in just to keep it from predetonating.
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id order a bottle or two of advil while your at it
I think your better off spending your money somewhere else in my opinion...
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Water-to-air intercooling and Water Injection is different. I don't know if it's been done around here in Fargo, but I think it would be too problematic considering our climate. Water freezes easily and often here.
Nitrous does exactly the same thing as you described above, except with its evaporation it also releases oxygen. Not only does it cool your air charge, it would make oxygen more readily available. Water would not make the intake charge denser.
2005 Mercedes-Benz C240 4Matic
1993 Mazda Rx-7 Twin Turbo (sold)
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You can mix up to 50% alcohol in with the water which would keep it from freezing. Water is free nitrous isn't.
Water would make the intake charge denser. The liquid water "absorbs" some of the heat from the intake air, so the liquid then turns to steam. So the cooler intake air would then be more dense.
I don't think it's as big a headache as you think 92BlackTT, there are 2 adjustments on the less expensive kits, water metering (jet size) and timing (Pressure switch). The pressure switch can be set anywhere from 3-30 psi and comes preset at 10 psi.
I just wanted to bring it up, I'm not saying it's the solve all solution. I'm playing the devils advocate.
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less expensive kits = total waste of time for what you are trying to accomplish
more expensive kits = possible/more then likely eprom, ecu output links to alc/water injection module, mapping experience, enough fuel injection knowledge to attempt this on your own motor not to mention tapping the intake manifold for the extra injector. Now stop to think about retuning your car on the dyno(you were tying to gain hp right?) and having an egt and knock box on hand to make sure it keeps working correctly. Is nitrous sounding better yet?my head hurts just thinking about it..
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There are some really good water injection kits out there. It's benefitial to spray into the inlet of the intercooler to reduce the intake temp as much as possible. Plus water is cheap, and with a good controller the water is only injected when it's needed, so you don't need a huge reservoir.
I agree that a properly set-up street configuration should not require water injection, but it surely couldn't hurt at the track. It could also be cheap engine insurance. The high-dollar controllers monitor things like boost, IAT, det, TPS, EGT etc. so they react quickly to your driving conditions.
If you have a large enough intercooler, it will act as a heat sink to help prevent temporary intake temperature spikes, but the water injection squirt will always be a little late getting to the engine.
I used to work with a guy who used this kit http://www.aquamist.co.uk/ on his Lotus Esprit 2.2 turbo, and he had really good luck with it.
This is a really inexpensive DIY kit:
http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_0527/article.html
There are 6 parts to this article, you have to search for them and open them separately. Prices are here:
http://www.autospeed.com/shop/category_705/browse.html?The autospeed kit looks like a pretty good deal. Are you looking at turbo-ing the Civic, Schwanger? It's too bad they don't allow water injection in FSAE. I'd be all over that.
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The point of water injection is to use it along with your FMIC so you can run more boost. Water is a more effcient cooling technique then using an air-air IC.
Of course you wouldn't need it for the street, but I found a guy that uses it on a bike that he races at the Bonneville salt flats. The motor runs 11:1 compression and then he's boosting at 22psi. There is no way he could fit a big enough IC to keep it from detonating, so along with an IC he made a custom water injection kit.
No jake the Civ isn't getting a turbo. I can't afford it after I bought the Monster.
I was going to ask you if we could use it on the next car. Does it say in the rules that we can't use water injection?
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There is alot of mix and match usage with the terms 'water injection' and an 'air-to-water intercooling'. In an air to water intercooler the intake charge is cooled by water inside the heat exhanger core. In a water injection system, water is directly injected directly into the intake charge and goes into the combustion chambers. It's a slight technical difference, but it shouldn't be used interchangeably. They both help prevent detonation.
2005 Mercedes-Benz C240 4Matic
1993 Mazda Rx-7 Twin Turbo (sold)
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