water injection and water + methanol/ethanol blends were tricks used in the late 1970s in Australia
While they cleaned the combustion chambers Yella Terra heads found corrosion problems in their cast iron heads
- so I'm reluctant to go that direction - I think Id prefer to use FPC catalyst and/or do as Stan suggested on an earleir thread perhaps using LPG. I have spare OMVLs laying around they are used to regulate supply of LPG and converter liquid to a gas in a controlled way - Just remember to use 12v solenoid to ensure LPG shuts off if the engine stops so combustion does not occur on the wrong side of the piston ..
This failsafe is in all the GFSI diesel/LPG hybrid setups - a mate did the dyno testing and the best result is at 19% LPG mix - so you screw back on the diesel and enjoy a 20% increase in HP and 9% increase in torque and an overall reduction in fuel, carbon and particulate emissions.
I run LPG in both my petrol engined and diesel powered trucks and the engine and oil certainly remain clean
it also reduces hard carbon and particulate emissions.
I'll see if John Bennett from Ecotherm has written any articles on water injection - he developed special cast iron
heads in Brazil to overcome issues with using 100% ethanol blends.
Interesting thread ... I'll hone up on my spelling to avoid being chastised or I may find myself having to write "listeroids" on the board
50 times before I can log off. I did not realise you were so politically correct on such a fun forum.
Stephen Hutson
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