water injection

[Michael Kasimirsky]

> IndyCars (ChampCars, CART, whatever) all run methanol, and have
> for decades.  A common (and more effective) alternative to 
> water injection
> is alcohol injection (actually, usually a mix), and
> methanol *is* an alcohol.  I'm speaking over my head here, but
> it may very well be that the evap cooling of methanol is so good
> that water injection is simply superfluous.

Methanol has an "octane" rating of about 130, so detonation isn't
nearly as much of an issue as with gasoline.

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