Flow rates for nozzles

[Barry E. King]

Point well taken.

My actual intent (initially anyway) was to allow running more boost.
Running out of water would mean reducing the boost.  Depending upon where I
go with this I'll either have a simple warning indicator of some sort to
which one would respond by reducing the boost or incorporate some sort of
boost reduction technique.

Since this was initailly just a personal project I'd likely opt for the
simple approach.

The idea someone mentioned of using compressed air to pressurize the water
is interesting but has its own set of issues.  I think I'll stick with some
sort of electric pump.


Regards,

Barry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> [mailto:owner-diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of Roger
> Heflin
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 11:30 AM
> To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: Flow rates for nozzles
>
>
>
> Running out of water on a water injection system will cause the engine
> to knock, so getting too much air  (and given the amount of air ithat
> most engines use, I really cannot see a hose of the size you would be
> using suppling enough  air to make any significant difference).
> Running out of water when you are using it to allow more advanced
> timing would be potentially fatal to your engine no matter how you do
> it.   Probably it would be best not to run out of water with any
> system, since the water pump will also probably pump air pretty good
> too.  Also the nozzles may limit the air soo much that there is not
> enough volume to worry about (of air).
>
> 				Roger