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Old 10-13-2008, 06:31 AM   #15 (permalink)
Doofus McFancypants
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And that may be the catch.
the energy needed to convert the water offsets any benifit you get in adding to the fuel as a lean burn agent ( expecially if you include all the needed equipment to fool the ECU to not compensate for the O2 sensor signal showing the engine is running lean.

theory sounds nice - execution may be something completely different.

still would like to see some actual data to support either side.

steve
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