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Old 07-25-2016, 08:36 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
Don't say vapor, as pointed out it would be insignificant. Water injection has been around a long time. It was great in 1975 when gas went to crap and there were old hi performance 60s muscle cars running around calling for 15 degrees advanced timing and 12:1 compression on old school heads. Basically the water could reduce detonation. It wasn't for fuel economy it was just to put a bandaid on a problem. Turbos and superchargers can run extra boost with a water/alcohol injection system as well. That is to make lots more power, again no improvement in fuel economy.
But if it makes more power.....than it's more efficient.....so it gets better mileage!!!!

It's just like when you put vortex generators on a wing of an airplane......it gets more lift.....so it flies faster with less power and gets better mileage too....so that's why we put Vortex Generators on cars.
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