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Old 01-27-2011, 12:43 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Air can be compressed, fluids cannot. I do not want to be the first to experiment with hydro-locking up my diesel engine. Proceed with caution. The EGR pipes on my car are 1" or 25mm. That could suck up a lot of water.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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