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Originally Posted by gto n 442
Youd never want to inject alcohol into your CAI youd cause a fire . Alcohol is excellent fuel by itself but as far as injecting any combustables before the intake manifold it should never be attempted. water injection does work they used to do it to high performance aircraft engines (both piston and jet). It wouldnt work well as was previously stated however all engines are designed with water ingestion as a normal factor so a car could in effect run fine with a wetted intake filter. will it help performance ? doubtful.
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My original thought was not to use water as a means to gain performance so much as it was to maintain that which we already have. That is, the water evaporation would be used to keep the IATs low enough to prevent the computer from pulling timing. As we all know, these cars a good performers, but heat soak is a major issue. If we could sufficiently reduce IATs, we could mitigate the issues associated heat soak, and subsequently eliminate the concern that we are going to have to deal with less than optimal performance on a hot summer day after having been tied up in traffic. During this thought exercise I have concluded that this is not the solution to the problem. Besides if we really want to cool the incoming air, we might as well do it right and use some funny gas.
-K
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