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Originally Posted by t vago
There is also the fact that steam would encounter cooler environments and immediately condense out. The sides of the intake manifold come to mind.
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Thats where the design gets interesting. Anyone wanting to do this will need to create a boiler and superheater that runs off waste heat a steam hybrid  maybe?
The superheater would be the easy part.
You would have steam bleeders, blow down valves it would be kind of scary to see it in operation.
There are 2 kinds of intake manifolds to watch out for. Carbed and throttle body injection style intake manifolds are designed so fuel (or any other liquid) wont pool in them. That type of design is good for these kinds of things, some times you get lucky with direct port designs to where they are all down hill wont allow pooling, but there are a lot out there that will pool liquid.
On my diesel, I plan to run water methanol injection soon and lucky for me its intake is a carb design copy.
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