I was looking for my air compressor air/water separator in my garage today to use as an oil catch can. It turns out what i had actually bought awhile back was a mister used to mist oil into tools for an air compressor.

it looks the same as the air water separators. it has a plastic clear bottle that you fill up with oil, and it sprays a mist of oil to lubricate your air tools.

I had a crazy idea. What if you could fill this with water and have a sort of water injection system that is somewhat like the water/meth injection systems.


I have know idea how these systems work, i just came up with the idea so here i am asking if its possible?

If its a fine mist, couldnt you just put it on one of the breather tubes that hooks up to the intake. it would then mist water into the intake pipe/ throttle body and help cool your intake charge?

sorry if this is a totally stupid idea. It just seemed like a cool diy if it actually is possible.

please no nasty comments lol

 

not a good idea

 

There are boards dedicated to water injection discussions. Google for them. The FI forum here talks about it every once in a while.

 

alrighty lol nevermind then. just a thought.

 

I had water injection from Edelbrock on a past vehicle. Great concept to reduce detonation in a high-compression engine (and keep the head clean) but not too expensive. No reason to 'MacGuyver' your own.

 

I helped put an eaton on an old 325i. We used a homemade water injection system.

It worked pretty well for what it was, a pump with a nozzle off an old windshield washer tank and a switch on the dashboard.

now you can get a lot more sophisticated delivery systems.


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