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Offline Punkur67

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What do you think about water methanol injection?
« on: November 03, 2010, 09:56:16 PM »
After the fear of getting a ticket for running race fuel I have been thinking about doing water methanol injection. It will cool the motor down and I will no longer need race fuel. Any thoughts?
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Re: What do you think about methanol injection?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 10:05:00 PM »
Race fuel isn't legal but Methanol is?  rofl rofl rofl   Calipornia  eyes
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Re: What do you think about methanol injection?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 10:06:42 PM »

ETA: it is very corrosive.  If you let the motor sit without purging the Methanol or spraying wd-40 or equivalent down it, it will rust up shortly.
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Re: What do you think about methanol injection?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2010, 10:07:42 PM »
Its only windshield wiper fluid. Just cleaning the windshield inside the motor. rofl
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2010, 06:09:54 AM »
All you Kallie people need to think about going E85 at the pump.  Re map and bigger injectors and your good to go.  They are even going to let them put in more alcohol now. John at Outfront and Quirt at Crawford Proformas are saying that they can get lots of HP from the E85.  It will take more fuel like running straight alky but E85 at the pump here is only $2.85 a Gal. 
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 06:32:04 AM »
But it takes approx 2 times as much per HP.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 06:34:30 AM »
AS for the small amount that is injected into the intake stream to stop detonation,there is no worry about the cylinders rusting or anything internal being unhappy. THe injection only occurs under boost  so any alky in the cylinder is gone way before shutoff of the engine. No fear of rust,very UNLIKE running e85 would be.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 06:38:52 AM »
Fast,know why they only want E85 max? So the cars will actually start reliably in cooler weather. Alky does not like to burn well in a cold engine sooooooo....... 15% gas/85%max  to aid in that area. I have a buddy with a '08 GMC truck that his check engine light keeps coming on. It started immediately after a fill up and did/has/not gone away even after repeated resets and a couple of different tanks of gas. Know what the code was for? High alky content detected in the fuel.There is still enough of something in it to keep tripping the code. BS.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2010, 07:40:21 AM »
Last night it didn't say water....  I thought we were talking:

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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2010, 08:23:49 AM »
Uh,yup,better spray down the cylinders when shutting the engine  down in that case.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2010, 10:01:17 AM »
I thought about converting to E85 but was trying to avoid all the fuel system upgrades and computer tuning. I also only have a 10 gal tank so I would need to build a bigger tank too.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2010, 10:03:10 AM »
After some respnoses I figured I needed to be more clear about what I meant.

Quote from: Engineer on November 04, 2010, 07:40:21 AM
Last night it didn't say water....  I thought we were talking:


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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2010, 10:09:20 AM »
Quote from: Punkur67 on November 04, 2010, 10:01:17 AM
I thought about converting to E85 but was trying to avoid all the fuel system upgrades and computer tuning. I also only have a 10 gal tank so I would need to build a bigger tank too.

What is the PO PO doing just stopping every one and sniffing your tial pipes?  That's  bs1 I'll be running C12 when I come out New Year's. What's the fine?   I'll pay the fine to save the engine. I'm like you I only have a ten gallon tank and I already use seven of it when I play at Butter Cup or cruze sand hiway.
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2010, 10:50:07 AM »
Quote from: fastcorvairs on November 04, 2010, 10:09:20 AM
sniffing your tial pipes? 
LMAO rofl rofl rofl LMAO

So if I'm burning E85 and burn twice the fuel its still better??  bs1
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Re: What do you think about water methanol injection?
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2010, 11:25:42 AM »
They are dipping into your tank and testing for lead. When I run sonoco 112 you can hardly smell it . Sp1 on the other hand smells great
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