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Old 06-24-2010, 11:57 PM   #132 (permalink)
gone-ot
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...water (but more typically water-alcohol) injection is used to control DETONATION, not produce more HP.

...true, you "boost" the HP by using super- or turbo-charging, but the water injection is there ONLY to keep the engine from "detonating" instead of "combusting."

...anybody remember the turbo'd Olds engines of the 1960's that had a separate little bottle of GM Turbo-water (H2O+ethanol)?

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