Has anyone else put a WATER BURNING unit on their car/truck and how is it doing for you? What kind of mileage

Question

are you getting and how is your performance. Mine is very good in both respects. Thanks for responses.

Answer 1

the best milage i ever got was in a downpoar verry heavy rain we got almost 50 mph in our car that normally got 32 on a trio through oregon it happend 2 times like that

i wish i could figure out the ratio that did it

Answer 2

The water injection system can and usually does help mileage and power.
The reason behind this is the small amount of water vapour cleans your combustion chamber of carbon.
The computer can then increase timing without pinging.
This will slowly increase mileage and performance on an older vehicle. After a while it will not be needed and can be removed or disengaged. Many do this over the winter and hook it up again in the summer.

Answer 3

I believe you are referring to water injection not water burning.
There seems to be a misconception of how this works. Cleaning the chamber is a small side benefit . The real boost you get from water injection is that you are putting more heat energy to work in the engine by using water to absorb the heat of combustion and produce high pressure steam in the cylinder. This creates more pressure on the piston. Basically it is the same process used in steam engines. By doing this in an internal combution engine, you are grabing some of the wasted energy that would otherwise blow out the tail pipe or radiator. Remember, heat energy runs the engine. Scavenging heat this way improves the efficiency. Earliest use of this I am aware of is in fighter planes in WW2. Us planes (P-51 I think) had a 90 second burst at full throttle for emergency use only. Like when you had to get away from a Zero on your tail.

Answer 4

The water injection system was first used on the very old dual fuel farming and construction tractors. When a small amount of water is injected into the intake manifold it cools the fuel/air mixture and reduces detonation (pre-ignition), and effectively increases the octane of whatever fuel is being used. The older systems were manual and the operator opened a valve when the engine was under load. The systems these days sense boost pressure and inject water automatically. And yes, a side benefit is carbon clean up.