thinking of running car on petrol & water mix

Flying-High_2

I'm working on a Sequential WD40 Injection system at the moment... Theory being Wd40 is just so slippy it will cut ALL internal friction... Add to the Octane rating and triple BHP and half fuel consumption...

cubegame

I hear that you can also save fuel by opening your engine and filling the holes in the "fuel injectors" (I think that is what they are called) with silicone sealant. The more you fill, the more petrol you will save.

If you take a wheel off as well, it also cuts your rolling resistance. Make sure to take opposite corners off though! For obvious reasons.

djheath

Dont forget to drive with the rear seats folded down as this helps spread the weight of the car and allows it to go faster.

Plus, filling you petrol tank with sand helps too. It flows through the engine and cleans all the pipes and cylinders as it goes, removing all those nasty sooty deposits and making the engine like new.

bigblackdog

i have been visiting boot sales and buying up all the old aftershave i can get my hands on , i then mix it in a big bucket with chip fat and white spirit , the car goes like a rocket now , and as a bonus i have saved a fortune on air fresheners

epsilondraconis

If anyone has a pick-up truck, it is supposed to be more fuel efficient if you drive around with the tailgate up rather than down. Well, that's what the Mythbusters, on the Discovery Channel, concluded anyway when they conducted various experiments. It appeared to be due to the air vortices being generated over the back of the truck due to the tailgate being up, which in turned reduced the overall air resistance (drag) on the vehicle as a whole.

I can't comment on adding water to the fuel tank; however my wife once tried to mix diesel and unleaded in the same tank after getting confused at the pumps. Suffice to say it turned out not to be very MSE...

Lum

tod123 wrote: »

I dont see why it wont work , some people put chip fat in, that seems ok!

Ok this has god to be a wind up now.

Chip fat is for old diesel engines. Not for a petrol car.

You could try LPG. That's a lot cheaper than petrol and works quite well.

Inactive

Lum wrote: »

Ok this has god to be a wind up now.

It was a " wind up " from post number 1.:D

hartcjhart

Tod, please dont try it on the lifeboat,we dont want to put any sailors at risk,you know you like getting seamen on your boat

jase1

What interested me about the Mythbusters debunking of rubbish like this was the fact that the petrol engine was running along perfectly happily on a continuous supply of hydrogen gas.

Surely this means that the only difficult piece of the puzzle to overcome (and I recognise that this isn't exactly trivial) is putting together an infrastructure to deliver hydrogen to vehicles, and store it safely. Was there really any need for Honda's hydrogen car concept?

The means to create hydrogen ecologically and cheaply is readily available. Nonsense like the above (using x energy to create it from water only to get something like x/2 energy back out from it) is stupid, but in principle the science does seem to be fundamentally sound.

exup

kaya wrote: »

hmm, hydrogen generators have been debunked many times, use bbc i player and search for "university challenged" if you still think they work, and water is NOT a good idea to put into your cylinders, water is a fluid , you cannot compress a fluid(this is how hydraulics work), if you cant compress it and its in your engine cylinder when the piston comes up to compress it(as it would with the air/fuel mixture) you will destroy your engine, a well known problem known as "hydraulicing" , many diesel engines in off road flooded conditions have sucked water in the air intake and destroyed themselves, however there is a system known as "aquamist" which injects a fine water spray in order to cool the intake, maybe thats what your referring to?
heres some info if your interested http://www.eco-scams.com/archives/714

if you couldnt compress fluids than an internal combustion engine wouldn't work at all - in fact not many things would work, as air (any gas in fact) is also a fluid.
Perhaps you meant you can't compress liquids (not very much anyway).
I remember water injection being talked about a few years back with a multipiston rotary engine which could use very low octane rated fuel (even mixed with water) Think it was Brian Crichton (Norton race team) who designed it.

I have had water injection in my car, but only when the head gasket failed.