Quote: Originally Posted by Simon.Starkie
Hey Coy, glad to hear you are doing OK in Iraq and wish you well for the remainder of your tour.
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that you not waste your money on a WI kit.
Just look at all the blown engines associated with WI.
Or the cases where WI stops working unexpectedly and there is no fail-safe to intervene and proect the motor.
Or the case where the WI check valve fails resulting in the motor hydrolocking on excess fluid and bending rods etc.
-HTH-
Many things can cause engine failure. If you dont tune your vehicle but use the water injection as a safety device, no problems will occur if it stops working. If you do tune for it you can benefit and make alot more power.
We have a failsafe available for $200 and complete kits with failisafe starting at $425. Our failsafe controller can incorporate many things including:
Detection of hardware failure (pump, solenoid, checkvalve, etc)
out of water
clogged nozzle
System running when it should NOT run.
In addition, you can incorporate 3rd party sensors including flow sensors, RPM, TPS, MAF, MAP, EGT, intake temp, water temp, etc.
I think everyone should be aware of risks involved with any modification but when used properly nothing has the benefits and low cost factor of methanol water injections.
I'll bet my company that for every one person that has hydrolocked or blew up the engine due to a malfunction you will find 100 that the water injection saved the engine.
Having said that, we are all entitled to opinions.