Water Injection

[David Hunt]

Everyone knows about the rear end collision fire problem with Pintos, but
mine blew up one day after starting the engine a number of times in a short
period.  Created too much hydrogen.  Bang!  The battery and solenoid were
mounted quite closely.  There was battery acid inside the car!

dh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Gargano" <peter at techedge.com.au>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: Water Injection


> Things that will ruin your day (water injection not in this list) ...
>
> Bruce wrote:
> >
> > Guess we better all go to air cooled engines, heck a blown headgasket
can
> > fill a cylinder with water.
>
>   Been there - with a Hillman Imp 875 cc. Notorious for blown head
gaskets.
>   "Why won't the starter turn the motor"...
>
>   OTOH, VW 1200 A/C Kombi, windy day down the road - pffft - what was that
puff
>   of smoke - damn, why is this spark plug hanging loose? Hmm, dropped
valve...
>
> > Better dump that port type injection, a leaking injector can dump a
bunch of
> > fuel in a cylinder.
>
>   Done that - Volvo 244, pumped the sump full of petrol! Well, mechanical
FI,
>   what can you say?
>
> I'd like to add that no vehicles should be allowed to carry any kind of
> volatile and/or flammable liquids:
>
>   Been there too, VW Golf - went up in flames when the fuel line came off
>   and ignited the plastic air filter (the wife was driving that time..).
>
> Now, those tyres, pumped up to 30 psi!
>
>   The guy down the road killed himself when a tractor tyre exploded -
>   and that was at less than 10 psi.
>
> Concentrated HCl in those innocuous looking batteries!
>
>   When I was pretty young, I attempted to see if the gas coming from a
small
>   motorcycle battery was in fact an explosive mix - match on the vent
while
>   it was charging - sure enough, it's explosive .... and the acid is
pretty
>   corrosive too.
>
> Where do you stop? Water injection? There are lots more things to worry ab
out.
>
> Peter.
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