why humid is better!

[ae2598 at wayne.edu]

I think the bottom line is you're cooling the combustion chambers.  It's
the latent heat of fusion, or something like that :)

Isn't that why people inject water into the intake?  Or, in the past how a
"power" A/F mixture was considered to be a rich mixture?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 KasaRyan at aol.com wrote:

> Here's my whack on it.  The water vapor in the air is in a finely divided 
> liquid state, not a gas, so when you heat it, it goes thru a phase change 
> into steam.  The resulting increase in volume is larger than if you took the 
> same amount of combustion calories and put it into air, which is already 
> behaving according to gas laws.  More volume=more push on the pistons= go 
> faster!
> 
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