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We should be clear that 'HHO' is an (incorrect) term referring to oxyhydrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, aka "Brown's gas" when it's produced in an electrolyser with a single duct (ie, no seperation). Oxyhydrogen is "easier" to produce than hydrogen, thus it's false to simply apply the same "hydrogen generation is waay too energy intensive" logic to an 'HHO mod'.
So HHO shouldn't be referred to as 'hydrogen injection', and not put in the same basket as nitrous oxide injection... although after more experimentation we might discover that the oxyhydrogen is really just an oxidising agent after all, hahah.
@ttoyoda, yeah the atomised fuel/air is sucked in when the valve opens, not real important when the injector fires. Just look how long the cloud of fuel/air hangs around in the intake on a carb engine.
I imagine injecting at precisely the right time would reduce the chance/effect of a lean backfire, but that's another issue.
I don't think I understand how you could remove the butterfly with an HHO mod though? Is a pulse width modulator acting as the throttle?
For a mod'd petrol engine or a hypothetical fully converted HHO engine?
On the fordmods forum you'll see a pattern of people building an HHO kit from whatever they have laying around, chucking it in their car with little consideration, and getting improvements, I haven't seen anyone there tricking ECUs or leaning mixtures yet.
Only 3 days until the weekend; I'll try to build mine then :-)
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