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Daox · 01-13-2017, 01:23 PM

I've heard of water injection on gasoline engines to increase fuel economy (to essentially stay in closed loop and avoid fuel enrichment), but I'm not familiar with using it on diesel engines to increase fuel economy. What is the reasoning there?

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