[DeTomaso] CR, Detonation, and water injection

[John Bentley (jab)]

What kind of systems? :)  Got any info?

JB

 

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
On Behalf Of adin at frontier.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:46 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] CR, Detonation, and water injection

I have a couple of "pre-tested" commercial systems available . . .   
(from my boost days)

lemme know.



Quoting "John Bentley (jab)" <jab at cisco.com>:

> All you need is a separate injection system for the water (like on a 
> dc-8)! :)
>
> JB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com 
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On Behalf Of Ken Green
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:06 AM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] CR, Detonation, and water injection
>
> It seems to be common practice to use a rich mixture to cool the 
> combustion chamber under high HP output conditions.  I looked up the 
> heat of vaporization of gasoline, and it's 135 calories per gram 
> compared to 540 for water.  This would suggest that you need a lot 
> less water than extra gas to cool the chamber and it makes a lot of 
> sense to use water injection to control detonation versus rich 
> mixture.  The math seems pretty simple.
>
>   Ken
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