Methanol Injection Installed
03-14-2009, 08:00 PM
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Nice Bruce.....so when do you get to see if any performance gains were had from meth? I know my tuner did what you did and he was able to up the boost to over 15psi and yielded around 550+ RWHP and was extremely close to 10's on the stock block and AUTO trans. Unfortunately at the 1000' mark the motor let go because the meth for some reason failed (he made well over 25 passes at the track before the demise of the motor) and IMO was just pushing it with that power level on stock everything else. Actually he really wanted to know what he felt was a safe package to offer for his whipple kits and his shop car was a great test car...he now has a 09 vert and whipple will be installed on that I believe.
03-14-2009, 08:03 PM
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I think he uses his windshield washer tank for that and that is about 1 gallon...at least thats what my tuner does as he offers the kit for the centri's and whipples.
03-14-2009, 08:38 PM
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03-14-2009, 10:03 PM
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Sounds like a plan and adding meth will give you plenty of flexibility in HP options without a pulley/belt change. You can run more timing and a leaner A/F ratio with the consistently cooler charge temps......I am not kidding when I say never over 135 degrees after a 1/4 mile track run... here is a good read for you!
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http://www.alternativeauto.com/prods...h-alcohol.html
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By relocating the ACT sensor after the blower in the intake track, it allows us to tune so that if the inlet temps skyrocket due to an Alky failure, we can tune the ECU to significantly reduce ignition timing to save the motor as the inlet temps would normally climb up if there where no Alcohol. Just to give an idea of how much the inlet temps are reduced with a Alcohol kit - on a typical, non-intercooled Vortech set up with 10 psi of boost, inlets can get as high as 225-250 degrees at the end of a full 1/4 mile pass on a warm day. With Alcohol injection on the same set up but with 12 psi of boost, the inlets never get over 135 degrees by the end of the 1/4 mile!
http://www.alternativeauto.com/prods...h-alcohol.html