I was thinking about this concept, all though I'm sure many people have already done it. My buddy has a maxima that has close to 400 flywheel hp, and one of the things that he uses is a special setup that sprays fine mist alcohol directly into the intake manifold to cool the air down really fast (as you guys know, colder air= more dense air).......At first I was thinking that it would be complicated to set this up...but then it hit me....why not just use a direct port nitrous setup, and replace the nitrous with alcohol ? This way have a system that increases your performance considerably, but at the same time, isn't as potentially harmful to your engine as nitrous . Have you guys ever heard of anyone doing this before ? Do you guys think that this would work ? What kind of hp gains do you think it would create ?

 

its called water injection, mainly to prevent detonation, i have an aquamist kit. it lets me put my timing back to stock instead of retarding it.

 

i would not recomend it eclipsespanker. my buddy has a cavalier and we rigged it up with the alcohol and it worked at first, but then about a month later he blew his motor(chevy sucks). Maybe we set it up wrong but it was the same concept you are talking about. PLEASE dont kill a kick butt gsr think about what your about to do. Remember its a integra not a civic keep it clean

 

potentially harmful because it can puddle up in the intake manifold....thats my guess

 

Go ahead and try it then let me know

 

The thing is though, that it would be sprayed as a very fine mist, so I think it would have less of a chance of puddling up. FatBooty, whats your take on this ?

 

Ethanol alcohol is a common additive in gasoline. I'm not 100% sure but I think it's a substitute for octane. It prevents detonation in that way. It also burns cleaner. However, it's not as powerful as octane.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Laserguided
Ethanol alcohol is a common additive in gasoline. I'm not 100% sure but I think it's a substitute for octane. It prevents detonation in that way. It also burns cleaner. However, it's not as powerful as octane. [/QUOTE

Octane is more powerful, but i meant using it as an air cooling agent, not as a substitute for gas......

 

It doesn't cool the air much unless you have a force inducted engine. However, it will relieve cylinder pressures and cool the engine directly.

 

I would think nitrous/aquamist system would do a better job of cooling down your car...what's your physical reasoning behind using alcohol? Eventually when our petroleum supplies run out (+- 50 years) we may turn to alcohol as a substitute fuel (Buddy of mine at Cornell was part of the team that created a SUV that ran on alcohol). But I'm still not sure why you would use alcohol over the existing systems that are out there. Plus, water is slightly cheaper than alky

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