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Old 01-03-2009, 11:52 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe View Post
this is probably a dumb question and not in the right thread but considering that internals may blow, would a MAP sensor be able to tell if water/methanol mix is flowing through or does it only detect air? For that matter, do you have to convert to a MAP set up or can you just tune with MAF's and cross your fingers and hope the water doesnt fail
there are many failsafe devices available to detect flow of methanol, these can be used to trigger numerous devices , the best safety device is the driver of the car .

If your car is tuned to run at 11.5:1 AFR and you see that all of a sudden it goes lean - wether you are running methanol or not , you should be looking into things (and NOT boosting) - YES methanol is a fuel , and adding it will richen your AFR , just as adding gas would , the difference is you are adding a fuel with a way highter octane and latent heat of evaporation ( this means it will cool your combustion chamber) and in turn will cool your entire engine down.

The big hint here is every turbo car should have a wideband AFR meter

here are some very good links:

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fl...eat-d_147.html

This is one of the best reads on water/meth injection:

http://www.rbracing-rsr.com/waterinjection.html

Last edited by angus; 01-03-2009 at 11:53 PM.
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