Someone told me if I squirt water in My engine it'll go faster.

[nonovurbizniz]

hahaha... just wondered if any of you guys have read about "water injection"?

It's great for boost but I've heard of non-turbos doing it in much more moderate cc's.

here are some links or just search google.

http://www.turboneticsinc.com/spearco/h20inject.htm

http://www.racetep.com/wik.html

I was looking into this while I was still planning on turboing my d16 but have since sold all the parts.

[AzCivic]

yup, as long as that shit evaporates its all good.

[Wren57]

hah never heard of that before... last time I was out at test and tune there was a guy with a volvo and every time immediately after he ran he would put bags of ice on his intake manifold and headers... I would be afraid of warping something at that radical of a temperature change, but oh well thats what he did... worked well too, he was runnign fast (for his model volvo, that is)

hmm sounds like it might work if it was doing it all the time, but i think if it did it after the engine was hot it would crack something

[pdiggitydogg]

interesting...makes perfect sense to me

[GT40FIED]

That's an old hot rod/Funny Car trick. When the water evaporates it cools the combustion chamber allowing you run tons of boost without backing your timing off to prevent detonation. The only way I could see it really benefiting a N/A car would be if you ran timing bumped so insanely forward that the car barely ran. And forget about the stress of doing that on engine internals. Basically, if you're not boosted I wouldn't waste the money.

[ChrisCantSkate]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
That's an old hot rod/Funny Car trick. When the water evaporates it cools the combustion chamber allowing you run tons of boost without backing your timing off to prevent detonation. The only way I could see it really benefiting a N/A car would be if you ran timing bumped so insanely forward that the car barely ran. And forget about the stress of doing that on engine internals. Basically, if you're not boosted I wouldn't waste the money.

yup he nailed that one on the head.

[nonovurbizniz]

Ya as I said I was looking into it for my turbo project... and my buddy's got a turbo II that we MIGHT do it too but we'll probobly plumb a intercooler mister first see how that goes.

and for NA it could benifit but it'd have to be a pretty modded engine to do much and it'd have to be VERY small amounts of water cuz the evaporation would be much less then the boosted air.

And it's used while the engine is hot all the time it's just fine.

OHHH and I forgot I just put up links to retail versions... I was going to DIY it for the turbo set up. I would NEVER spend that much money on a setup like the one linked.