<VV> Water Injection Re: Reverse Rotation Cooling

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 Thank you, Captain Obvious. I saw this on the cover of DUH! Magazine. <G>

Anyway, so, what about all the water you consume, and have to carry and replenish? That's a HUGE downside. 

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: FrankCB <FrankCB at aol.com>
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Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 4:37 pm
Subject: Water Injection Re: <VV> Reverse Rotation Cooling


John,
     Because Sir Harry Ricardo discovered many decades ago that injecting water into a combustion engine allowed higher levels of boost pressure that considerably INCREASED the AVERAGE cylinder pressure (what engineers call BMEP) without increasing the PEAK cylinder pressure that breaks things.  And increasing BMEP increases TORQUE which, in turn, increases HP.  For a detailed presentation (including Ricardo's graph showing these effects) go to:
     http://autospeed.com.au/cms/title_The-H2O-Way-Part-2/A_110213/article.html
 
Injected water does a LOT more than simply cool the air/fuel mix BEFORE it enters the combustion chamber.
Frank Burkhard 
 

In a message dated 5/24/2012 6:32:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jvhroberts at aol.com writes:
From:   jvhroberts at aol.com
Sent:   5/23/2012   17:55
To:   FrankCB at aol.com; 62vair at gmail.com; tony.underwood at cox.net; virtualvairs at corvair.org; fastvair at yahoogroups.com
Subject:   Re:   <VV> Reverse Rotation Cooling

  
You never answered my last question, why would you add water to an air   cooled engine? <G>

  


  
John Roberts