Also known in the high powered aircraft reciprocating engine world as ADI:
Anti Detonant Injection.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@cfu.net>wrote:

> I was under the impression that airliners use water injection for
> takeoff and altitude establishment.....
>
> I had a Spearco dual stage Water Injection system on my dual Cadron
> set up in my 71 loaf.  It worked very well right up until the micro
> small injector jets would lime up from hard water or even the
> smallest piece of crud.  I always wondered if they ever solved that
> problem.  I used distilled water and still had trouble.
>
> DM&FS
>
>
> At 01:02 PM 1/30/2011, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>> water injection you say?  Water injection?  Like in the sixties when
>> all the scam shops were promoting running around with a jug of water
>> draining into the carburetor?   Lots of those guys ended up making
>> license plates.  mcneely
>> ---- VWBrain@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> > In a message dated 1/30/2011 10:28:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> > mcneely4@COX.NET writes:
>> >
>> > You say  that what you have set up is electrolysis.  I would agree that
>> > getting  enough fuel out of electrolysis aboard a vehicle is literally a
>> > "fool's  errand."  One would (1) consume more energy than the
>> fuel would deliver,
>> > and (2) the batteries required would fill up the vehicle.  So I am quite
>> > confused as to (1) what relationship the device you have set up is to
>> what
>> > the  original poster is talking about, and (2) whether what the original
>> > poster is  talking about has much to do with reality, given that
>> industry has
>> > spent ages  and tons of money working to come up with workable
>> fuel cells for
>> > application,  while this guy says he is doing it in his garage and plans
>> to
>> > install it on  his Vanagon.  Interesting ...............  .
>> >
>> > mcneely
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > hey guys there was a guy that had this setup in a bay window that came
>> to
>> > high country campout every year. Hads it in there for years ,
>> seemed to work
>> > but  only as an additive to the system, not for running oN competely.
>> said
>> > it did  increases if fuel mileage.   seems like water injection would
>> > probably  work just about the same. bunch of guys are running the
>> water injection
>> > on their  aircooled vannie and showing a decrease in the head temps.
>>  later
>> >  mark d
>>
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>
>