It is great to try things out and if they seem to be working , then they probably are, but i am a little dubious about this system for several reasons; gasoline cars are very sensitive to mixture, and the fuel injection , or carburetor, mixes the fuel and air in an exact ratio to provide enough but not too much fuel. the reason that fuel injected cars run better, last longer, get better mileage, make more power, and (the major reason they came into being), they produce less pollution. a good bargain al laround, in spite of some resistance to the new from a lot of mechanics in the early stages of introduction in the 70's. the point i would like to make is that it appears that you are introducing some air, presumably with some water and some alcohol, into the intake manifold. the air would make it lean, the alcohol would make it rich, and the water would have no effect other than cooling the combustion process. Water injection has been used a lot, and is a good thing, but i think the mixture of water and alcohol fume is probably not an accurate stoichometric (proper ratio of air/fuel, which varies depending on the fuel being used ) ratio, which could cause plug fouling, burning out of the catalytic converter, and excess emissions. checking the emissions on a smog machine would tell the tale. There is a good chance that the fuel injection system would compensate for a small amount of discrepancy, as it is designed to do, but large differences would be a problem a second point i would like to make is that it sounds like you are putting the vapors into the manifold " below the plate", that is, down the air stream from the throttle plate, which means that the vacuum is high at idle, and almost non-existent at full throttle, which means that you are putting the vapors in at idle, and not at high speed. in places other than america, the cars will not have a catalyst, but all the other proiblems would still apply, as with a carbureted car. hope this helps in your developments, anton ---------- >From: "David Teal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@egroups.com> >Subject: [biofuel] Re: Ron Novak's baby... >Date: Jan 15, 2001, 4:42 PM >
>Dick's accounts of water/ethanol mist improvements to his cars are >inspiring. I guess many of our list members (me included) will be following >suit. An additional benefit seems to be that the water content is high >enough to be comparable to undistilled products like cheap wine (11% to 13% >vol.). Thus the whole enterprise is even more accessible to the wider >public...bit worried about Dick's wife's car smelling like a refinery though >(or should that be a distillery?). >Novak's original, as reported by Mother Earth 1980, utilises the vacuum >advance tapping. Question...does the presence of the hubble-bubble reduce >the effectiveness of the ignition advance system? > >David Teal > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
