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Ok people how many of your are actully understanding the idea of water injection? First is has nothing to do with spraying the intercooler down, or the supercharger. Second if done properly there are a few things you can do with a good kit. 1. a good setup will allow you to run 87 octane with 0 knock or retard of the timing which will save you money. 2. A properly tuned kit will allow you to run harder with high octane without the computer to gain more power from timing and actually acting like a cheap nitrous system.
The way it works is that water has a threshold of almost 800% which means that it can absorb heat 8x faster than it will heat up. For example a quart or cold water can make 4 gallons of air the temp of the water before the waters temp will rise 1 degree. Seem complicated but it works. The advantage to say alcohol is it can absorb 1200% before it will change.
Test to show it in action. Take any type of alcohol anything alcohol based like finger nail polish. The bottle will be room temp. Now pour a small amount in your hand in will fell cold. It fells cold becuase its evaportaing super fast because of its high heat threshold. As is evaporates it removes the heat for energy to keep the chemical reaction in motion.
What all is involved in a setup.
1. a tank to hold the liquid. This can be a water or water/alcohol or water/methanol mix.
2. Pump to pull from tank to the intake manifold or intake path.
3. tubing of course.
4. controler. there can be just a simple WOT switch or a better map sensor based controler triggered by boost.
5. nozzle this is needed to get a desired spray/mist to make the water atomize and absorb as much heat as possible before it evaporates.
The way it works is that water has a threshold of almost 800% which means that it can absorb heat 8x faster than it will heat up. For example a quart or cold water can make 4 gallons of air the temp of the water before the waters temp will rise 1 degree. Seem complicated but it works. The advantage to say alcohol is it can absorb 1200% before it will change.
Test to show it in action. Take any type of alcohol anything alcohol based like finger nail polish. The bottle will be room temp. Now pour a small amount in your hand in will fell cold. It fells cold becuase its evaportaing super fast because of its high heat threshold. As is evaporates it removes the heat for energy to keep the chemical reaction in motion.
What all is involved in a setup.
1. a tank to hold the liquid. This can be a water or water/alcohol or water/methanol mix.
2. Pump to pull from tank to the intake manifold or intake path.
3. tubing of course.
4. controler. there can be just a simple WOT switch or a better map sensor based controler triggered by boost.
5. nozzle this is needed to get a desired spray/mist to make the water atomize and absorb as much heat as possible before it evaporates.
