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Old 04-21-2012, 02:52 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Why mix it with anything?
Typical water injection systems use a 1/1 mix of water and ethanol. The ethanol provides freeze protection, and also serves as a fuel source. It's the fuel source part that I was concerned with, as it would obviously skew injector pulse width measurements.

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I have a pressure vessel somewhere in the garage, fill it up with some distilled water, pressurize to 43psi with my air compressor, hook up a spare EFI injector at the other end and aim it into the open throttle body. The car has six 22# injectors so adding another one running the exact same PW would give a 6:1 fuel to water ratio.
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Excellent. You have provided a way to accurately measure the amount of water being sprayed into the intake manifold.
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