[Land-speed] Water Injection -- Too Much???

[dan warner]

We think that our ice/water ratio was wrong when running a BBC, N/A, on
gasoline in the Alfa. We used to fill the tank with ice, no water, waiting for
engine water to turn the ice to slurry. The car would run out 100-200', nose
over and kick out black smoke. The intercooler sensor would read 15 deg. We
started to cut back on the amount of ice and low end performance increased
greatly. Car ran 251 in three miles after that.
 
DW

--- On Thu, 7/10/08, Bryan Savage <b.a.savage at wildblue.net> wrote:

From: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage at wildblue.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] Water Injection -- Too Much???
To: "List Land Speed" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008, 9:54 AM

List,

I have only heard of one instance in the last 35 years where a high
level of water injection  may  have caused a problem.

Jack Lufkin, using a BBC twin turbo setup with huge alcohol/ice cooled
intercoolers couldn't build boost. The problem was solved by leaving
the intercooler water pump and the water injection off until the 1-2 shift.

Has anyone heard of a situation where someone reduced the amount of
water injected and gained power?

Thanks for any comments,
Bryan

I hope this hasn't been discussed in the past. If so, I'm sorry.
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