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Old 07-25-2016, 09:49 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hersbird View Post
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.
That is what I am going to do. The 8L I am building has 11 to 1 compression and I would like to run regular pump gas.
If I can use RUG instead of premium gas and run a lean tune it will be much more economical.
Not really any application for water/methanol for fuel economy improvement on an EPA and .gov approved production engine.
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