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Old 10-03-2012, 06:00 PM   #231 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Apexaddicted View Post
I think you may have misunderstood me. Everything in the cycle would be the same, save for the water injection, but the excess heat that is conventionally leeched to the coolant system would be limited. The goal of course would be to allow the injected water to absorb this heat and aid in expansion. The main argument that was brought up earlier in this thread was the lack of heat energy in the combustion chamber to fully vaporize all the injected water to steam.

Still curious if anyone has successfully done this yet before i waste more time on trying to improve the process. Anyone?
Sounds like you might be describing a 6 stroke engine.
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