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  • crokett
    The Full Monte
    • Jan 2003
    • 10627
    • Mebane, NC, USA.
    • Ryobi BT3000
    #1

    This is way cool

    Water injected engines have been around for a while but this is a new twist: a tiny bit of water is injected on an extra stroke. It cools the engine and provides power all at the same time.

    http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/FREE/302270007/1023/THISWEEKSISSUE
    David

    The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.
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    • Ed62
      The Full Monte
      • Oct 2006
      • 6021
      • NW Indiana
      • BT3K
      #2
      That is really cool. If that thing works like he hopes, for some unexplained reason, I think somebody will buy him out real quick. That will be the end of it.

      Ed
      Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained

      For a kickback demonstration video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/910584...demonstration/

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        • Slik Geek
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2006
          • 708
          • Lake County, Illinois
          • Ryobi BT-3000
          #3
          Pardon my cynicism...

          "The engine has yet to operate against a load on a dyno, but his testing to date encourages Crower to expect that once he gets hard numbers, the engine will show normal levels of power on substantially less fuel, and without overheating. It’ll run for an hour and you can literally put your hand on it. It’s warm, yeah, but it’s not scorching hot. Any conventional engine running without a water jacket or fins, you couldn’t do that."

          If I had what I thought was a revolutionary idea for fuel efficiency, and I had a working model, one of the first things that I would do would be to perform an objective test to prove whether I was achieving my objective. The fact that he hasn't makes me very suspicious. A flake makes claims in the absence of objective data. A real innovator has a reputable, independent party witness testing and THEN makes claims, letting the facts speak for themselves.

          He may simply have an engine with an impractical, but unique cooling mechanism.

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