160-degree thermostat too cold?

rlevs said

i think it is Snow Performace that does the water methanol injection. they have a plate that will fit right under your carb. then you can put on of there tanks in the trunk and mount the pump between or use you windsheild washer tank and mount the pump between that and the motor. the water will keep the EGT's down and the methanol will boots your octane level. and what is really cool you can use the blue windsheild wiper fulid from the store. along with a little tuning and it should run really good.

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There are a lot of Meth Injection kits out there. From my understanding, not some sales pitch, injecting Meth does basically nothing unless the air charge is heated up via pressurizing by forced induction. What the Meth/water/windshield washer fluid is doing is cooling the condensed air/fuel charge off. The cooler the charge, less likely you are to detonate. Spoke to a local fellow a while back that believed the sales hype.....bought a Meth Injection kit, only to have the death rattle continue. If you have to much cylinder pressure it is going to rattle unless you soften the tune a lot. Meth injection, for forced induction guys is used as a replacement/or to supplement an inter-cooler...

http://www.alkycontrol.com/
http://www.alcoholinjectionsystems.com/
http://www.snowperformance.net/

Are just a few. Google DIY water injection and you will find low buck ways to do it. Perhaps I should back off on the above statement a bit....I just have a very hard time buying that by attempting to cool off an ambient air charge it will be like increasing the octane 10 points or what ever the claim is. Would definitely not be the first time I am wrong....won't be the last....