Andybee:
I agree with you about better performance on wet days, I happened to notice that a lot when I had a small VESPA scooter with a 150cc two stroke engine.
Of course someone living in Vancouver may not notice a diference year round, while someone in Las Vegas might.
Just one coment about...
ErickFahlgreen.- Very good work, I will study the charts.
SBBlue.- That is a good point and one more reason to consider water as an option to increase power and efficiency.
Patprimer.- I think the clue is that what you are modifying is the relative humidity of the air while entering the...
REDMANE
Good point, I overlooked the expansion factor of the water in the combustion.
But still the issue is if it would be practical to install a water inyection system on passenger cars for intance or diesel truck engines. The volume of water would need to be controled in proportion to the...
Pat:
I think the clue is not what happens inside the cylinder but on how much oxygen enters the system and I think more oxygen enters as a result of the reduced volume by cooling the air before entering the chamber. What happens afterwards, inside the cylinder is another system.
I think, for...
To Greg Locock:
Greg, whay I am sure about is that if to dry hot air you add water the air cools significantly and following the law of gases, if you cool a gas it reduces its volume and if the oxygen content remains the same that means you actually put more oxygen per cubic feet of air to the...
Some time ago I was looking for options to inject water to a gasoline engine to improve power and milage and read several of the opinions. I got discouraged because the practicality of it was not there to compensate for the trouble, but I was surprised nobody could explain why the water injected...
