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TDIpowered · 07-19-2009, 02:04 AM

dumbasses lol Watermethonal is used to cool the intake charge often along side an intercooler or heat exchanger like in my old supercharged cobalt. It gives you more power becuase you can increase the timing without detonation becuase of the methanol raising the octane you wont have to worry about it sparking or not because it will with methanol/water. yes the water evaporates to do the cooling and the methonal helps advance the timing and increase the flash quality of the fuel. And you have to have a tune for it to be effective and see maybe 15 or 20whp from it. Without a tune it has the chance of messing up your engine. And we always ran 70/30 mixer. 70 parts water/ 30 parts methanol...Or a full gallon of windsheild wiper fluid that is 20* and under is a 60/40 split. so you would either mix in some water or find a place to buy methanol.

07-19-2009, 02:04 AM	#19
TDIpowered Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kearney, MO Posts: 2	Re: Thoughts on water injection for increased MPG dumbasses lol Watermethonal is used to cool the intake charge often along side an intercooler or heat exchanger like in my old supercharged cobalt. It gives you more power becuase you can increase the timing without detonation becuase of the methanol raising the octane you wont have to worry about it sparking or not because it will with methanol/water. yes the water evaporates to do the cooling and the methonal helps advance the timing and increase the flash quality of the fuel. And you have to have a tune for it to be effective and see maybe 15 or 20whp from it. Without a tune it has the chance of messing up your engine. And we always ran 70/30 mixer. 70 parts water/ 30 parts methanol...Or a full gallon of windsheild wiper fluid that is 20* and under is a 60/40 split. so you would either mix in some water or find a place to buy methanol.