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Originally Posted by niky
Which is basically what anyone and everyone looking at the various methods of combustion enhancement already knows.
Honestly... water is already an effective method of enabling ultra-lean burn... there's no need to go the extra step of splitting it into oxygen and hydrogen through a wasteful, energy-intensive process.
Bosch Water Injection Designed to Cut Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions |
Nice article. Although it's not up on its facts. The BMW M4 GTS isn't the first production car to have a water injection system. The 1962 Oldsmobile F85 had water injection. I think BMW likes to make these kind of things up. A while ago they were bragging of being the first to use a magnesium engine block when my 1972 VW has an all original magnesium crankcase.
But don't think I haven't thought about doing that, although the concept between water injection and HHO is quite different. Too bad my car's carbureted or I'd have installed one of these a while ago:
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I might do it to the diesel some day. But the -40°F it reaches here in the winter would make it prohibitive to implement water injection all year.