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Originally Posted by deejaaa
reminds me of one i got from a neighbor in the 80's. it was built commercially but was old when he gave me it. the jar was very large and was hard finding a place to put it. was too young to care about measuring mileage but remembering him say it did and that was the reason i tried it.
this is a homemade unit and the operation is the same:
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Maybe im being a bit pedantic, but I would at least get the input air for this setup through a filter of some kind. I would do this both to prevent clogging the metering valve as well as to prevent any chance of dirt making it into the engine. This is especially the case in dry dusty areas. The rest of the system is pretty unique- I like it!
My dad's system approached inducting water a different way. While yours seems to aim to have air and water mixed, my dad's setup aimed to output only water. The wick would soak up the water, and the vacuum would cause water to be pulled off the wick only so much as the needle valve would allow flow. The weakness of his setup would be needing to reset the needle valve every so often, or cleaning it once in awhile. Your setup doesnt have that issue as the metering valve controls air into the system instead of water out of the system.
I have read that excess levels of water can be hard on catalytic converters, though im not sure exactly how. I know water is one byproduct of converting hydrocarbons, so this doesnt make much sense to me.