This website claims that adding a crazy, (and I might add inexpensive) looking contraption will (strictly experimentally) increase a car’s mileage http://water4gas.com/2books.htm?hop=eclipse123
Is this true or even possible?
Water injection on petrol engines is nowhere near new technology – Spitfires during the war used water/methanol injection to help cool and increase supercharger efficiency.
Saab used it more recently on some of their 9x series, but you are only talking about adding a very small amount of water, two litres would last 500 miles or more.
The water is injected as a very fine mist at high engine revs to help cool the turbo charge and increase the mass air density.
The technology is obviously very expensive and works directly in relation with the engine management computer system control.
The system advertised in the link you provided is using a method to split water into its component parts Oxygen and Hydrogen – it is indeed relatively cheap to buy the kit, but the amount of usable hydrogen obtained for the electricity required is quite small.
So just consider how much hydrogen you would require to save 50% of your petrol usage, and as the plant can’t produce it fast enough to use as you are running – where are you going to store the reserve.
To give you some idea, separation of water using electrolysis needs about 5 minutes to produce 100ml of uncompressed hydrogen, which is enough to run a 2Ltr standard 4stroke for about 15 seconds.
So in conclusion – don’t bother.
not true, dont do it
without extensive modifications to your engine the answers NO it would ruin your engine with the modifications you might be able to but you would need a ELEKTRON SYSTEM this would split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.The hydrogen would have to be compressed and then burned,.the oxygen could be vented posing no pollution
this is a SCAM SCAM SCAM
Put it this way, if it genuinely worked noticeably don’t you think the manufacturers would install it anyway? It would be a BIG selling point . . .
(it’s nothing to do with water-injection, by the way, which is used in some high-performance engines to cool the charge and allow full power to be produced without damage; particularly high powered aero engines.)
Would you try to do heart surgery on Grandma at home? Water-injection, specifically developed for a given engine, can give efficiency gains through an in-cylinder inter-cooling effect, but it is NOT to be blithely attempted at home, unless you want to be looking for a new engine!
no it will just screw up your car bad
It is highly likely that you will run into alot of scams and people selling snake oil products now because of the high prices of gas. If it was so good the automotive industry would have gotten into it. I would stay away from anything claiming to be too good to be true.
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