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Originally Posted by stevey_frac
Well... That's not quite true. Extensive research was done, and it was shown that hydrogen can extend the lean burn limit of a gasoline powered internal combustion engine...
Sure the kits don't work, but the kits don't alter the A/F ratio of your car.
If you could find a way to trick your car into running lean with a good hydrogen generator, you would see small gains. You'd have to map the A/F ratio against load though. It'd be hard but doable.
FOr some reason, the wikipedia page on it isn't showing for me. However, IIRC correctly, hydrogen fuel enhancement can allow a gas engine to run as lean as 25:1 at low loads.
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If you goal is to trick the car into lean burn, just get wide band oxygen sensor and controller. The prices have come down a lot in the last couple of years. You can have the whole contraption up and running For $120.
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Why mess with a hydrogen generator when you know they don't work?
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Originally Posted by Istas
As has been discussed ad nauseam in this post, of course it won't work if the energy from combining the hydrogen and oxygen is what is used to split more hydrogen and oxygen. But once again, that is not the concept in question here. The concept is the hydrogen (and oxygen in some versions but not others) altering the characteristics of the reaction in such a way that it improves the efficiency of the combustion, as a whole, enough to offset the (relatively) small amount of energy needed to split the small amount of water into its component elements.
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Pseudo science at its best. You have no idea how it works, you can't replicated the results but somewhere deep down you're convinced there is something to it because you read it on the internet.
