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Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
And the idea is simple. HHO is not a fuel. It is not a catalyst. It takes part in the combustion. The combustion is accelerated a measurable amount thus ignition timing is able to be optimized closer to top dead center and pressure losses before top dead center (TDC) are transferred to pressure gains after TDC.
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Strictly speaking HHO is a fuel, even providing its own oxygen; but its contribution as a fuel is just a fraction of the cost of splitting it through electrolysis, so I get your not counting it as fuel.
The challenge is to prove that a small amount of HHO does indeed speed up the combustion.
Now that should be doable with a modern car engine and an ODB2 device,
driving at a constant speed, flipping the HHO supply on and off and watching the effect on timing retard and instant fuel consumption.
Am I right in that?
Someone must have tried this already?
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