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[teoman]

Do you have a thread about it?

[ar5boosted]

Originally Posted by Enki

So you mean you injected water (unmixed) at the same rate as you were consuming fuel right? I ask because I'm pretty sure that putting water in the gas tank is a not so great idea. Lol.

Roughly as much, Yes.

I was using an electric-water-pump and a misting nozzle to spray into the carburetor. There was a switch on the throttle cable to turn the pump on. It idled without the water running.

The water tank was in the back of the van. I wasn't worried about it exploding.

Once I hydrolocked the engine but took off the sparks plug and it started again. Van was stolen otherwise I might have been still driving it.

Originally Posted by teoman

Do you have a thread about it?

Sorry no.

But there is nothing I couldn't do again. I believe that what I did was reproduceable. I still have the pumps and nozzles and the gear.

I think it would work for anyone doing lean-burn and greatly assist.

[teoman]

And were you able to measure FE gains?

[ar5boosted]

Originally Posted by teoman

And were you able to measure FE gains?

Yes. Constantly.

Remember about five years ago when there was a gas price spike? here we were paying $1.60 per litre and not the $1.10-$1.30 per litre that we pay now.

I just measured per fill. The tank was too big to fill, ie 100 litres or $160, no thanks to that.

So it would range from 9L/100km to 11L/100km instead of 14L/100km without the Water-Injection running. I had the vehicle for a few years, it wasn't a one off.