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A diesel ? water injection isn't going to work with the Diesel but i guess you know that... :) Excuse me, maybe It's the way I wrote it, I wasn't saying I'm going to do it as a diesel, merely that I'm going to use (modified) diesel type injectors as used on late model common rail diesels that requi...

Lynchy wrote:

The gull wing used a different head which has the spark plugs in it

Not sure where the plugs are on this one!

Was that John Fitch's Car? Spark plugs are under the coils on the opposite to the throttle bodies. looks like EFI instead of MFI .

In the 70's an F1-11 crashed into Auckland Habour, the pilot and his crewman ejected safely from the plane and were picked up by a fishing boat. The F1-11 has an ejection pod which both crew get sent out in. It even has a bulge pump built into it to pump water out if the pod ends up in the sea so it...

Nice Work there Ross. Heck of a lot of Kiwi's in brissy in various little niches of the automotive business , and the salt . What influenced you to go in this direction with the three engines?

If you have to ask "Why?" you just don't understand... No I don't understand at all but i understand marketing rubbish taxi racing to bogans ... :roll: The whole V8 supercars franchise is an English owned company who have succeeded in degrading races like Bathurst into the automotive equi...

that would be wasted on Ski boat..or do they race it?

I've been thinking about this lately too... It seems to me the most effective use of water could be to unleash the potential energy in the expansion ratio of converting water into steam and so producing true usable power (among other benefits such as reducing tendency for uncontrolled detonation) b...

heres an interesting pic of Frank Klienig, and his MG Hudson special which featured water injection. he sold a form of water injection for years which worked on the low compression engines and crappy fuel around after WW2.

one of my cars has air suspension and i had thought of the electric pump,but why bother when the pressure is already available at over 200 Psi. We used to have frozen coke machines which use a stainless steel tank that can be refilled and plumbed directly into CO2. I Found some small versions on eba...

theres quite a lot of info on the web regarding the best places to inject water.(throttle body,before or after turbo's etc etc ) Some of the keener blokes install one for cylinder . The water /metho mix has proven to be the working one with the mix added together in the holding tank.

When i was living in the West i found there was more than record attempt on the public roads at Coonabarabran ,in fact at Baradine,it was a big event . Cams has Some details of records before 1983 but they have massive gaps in their records. Coonabarabran.jpg Coonabarabran2.jpg Coonabarabran3.jpg

it's an old thread but one of the Worlds experts on water injewction is right here in OZ. He runs mazda rotary turbos with huge amounts of boost . It is now aknowledged that water injection Does increase horsepower . The big secret is make the water into a vapour and that means lots of pressure and ...

g'day Don, i consider the north Home ,although I have been over here in Skippy land forever. I see you are entrenched in the kawa kawa railway scene. I am old enough to remember seeing k loco's pulling trains of Stock through the main street and the fire engine was a 1934 Ford V8 . You probably know...

Rodger Donaldson had known Burt for years and in the 70's they went on a road trip around NZ . I met them in Auckland .I was an apprentice back then and my tradesman was a madkeen motorcyclist so we all went along to this meet and greet evening where we listened to Burt tell us about Speed records ,...

i learnt quite a bit about Wizard Smith because ninety mile beach is my spiritual home (grandfathers grandfather is buried on the top of the mountain at Ahipara) and when i lived in Doubtless bay at mangonui ,one of my Customers was Former Wheels Editor Steve Simpson . Steve had retired to live the ...