[Diy_efi] WI, methanol, and corrosion

[Adam Wade]

--- Axel Rietschin <Axel_Rietschin at compuserve.com>
wrote:

>> So ulimately, unless someone gets a bright idea
>> and can convince someone to test it in the off
>> season, an unused idea typically stays that way...
>> If it's not on someone else's racing vehicle, and
>> you already have a full R&D scedule, your bright
>> idea may never be realized...

> Agreed. Except that in this particular case, they
> used to inject water "continously" post IC and now
> they do it at the port using fuel-type injectors, so
> maybe that falls into the bright ideas that were
> tested and proven good.

Hmm.  Interesting point, I wasn't aware it was a
situation where they moved away from one idea and to
another.

What constitutes a "good idea" for racing, as was
already pointed out, is compromise.  Perhaps the new
way of doing things gave the same or slightly less
power, but allowed a much smaller water tank, and thus
reduced the weight of the car.  One thing I have found
in my few years in the motorcycle industry is that it
is very difficult to reverse-engineer the priorities
that went into a particular racing part being the way
it is.  ;)  Everyone seems to have their own order of
priorities regarding what is the best set of
compromises to use...

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| Adam Wade                       1990 Kwak Zephyr 550 (Daphne) |
|   http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/espresso_doppio/lst?.dir=/   |
| "It was like an emergency ward after a great catastrophe; it  |
|   didn't matter what race or class the victims belonged to.   |
|  They were all given the same miracle drug, which was coffee. |
|   The catastrophe in this case, of course, was that the sun   |
|     had come up again."                    -Kurt Vonnegut     |

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