Water Injection

[Jared Ryan]

A neighbor had her Mazda in a puddle, not even a very deep one, and another
car passed and made a wake, and the Mazda sucked in water and bent two or
three connecting rods.  Whether or not water will damage an engine seems to
depend on the engine.

But I can't see how a well-thought-out water injection system would
hydrolock an engine.  Just build in safety devices and it should work fine.


----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Tisdale <btisdale at cybersol.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: Water Injection


>
> I humbly submit your mechanic friend wasn't familiar w/ anything other
than
> a real $hitty injection systems.  As for hydrolock, I think that's a
> non-issue here; my wife once drove her Chevy Cavalier thru a deep puddle &
> sucked enough water into the engine to stop it instantly.  I just took out
> the plugs, cranked it, poured some alky in the plug holes just to rinse &
> dry it further.  Changed the oil, no internal damage whatsoever.  Want to
> tell ya how high the water shoots out, though!
>
> I *love* my Aquamist.....
>
> FWIW - Barry
>
> At 07:42 PM 7/25/01 -0700, 944Technologist wrote:
> >Caution - Water Injection
> >
> >I had a heated conversation last years with one of California's more
popular
> >Porsche mechanics. He was dead set against it and would not consider it
has
> >any merits. He had seen too many engines blown by Hydrolock from water
> >injections systems.
>
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