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Default OT - Six stroke engine

Stuart Wheaton wrote:
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Be easy enough to rig up some kind of bifurcated fueling nozzle with two
adjacent orifices on the car. If it can really run that cool, imagine
the advances in aero design with no need for a massive airflow over the
motor or radiator.


The article mentioned that Crower had converted a diesel engine to
run on gasoline & that he was using the fuel injectors to inject the
water. I don't know if he was still using the injectors for the gas,
though. Seems like it could present problems if you used the same
injector for both water and fuel. Like you say, some sort of
bifurcated injector should work.

It is a brilliant idea, so simple in the concept. Keeping the water
liquid in a Minnesota winter might be tricky, but a small heater in a
short run tank, and the exhaust pipe through the main tank, and building
in a way to freeze/thaw without damage (elastic tank & hoses?) might get
there.


I thought that the simplicity of the idea was striking, as well. I
was wondering if there was some obvious "gotcha" factor that I hadn't
considered.

Good points about accommodating feed water in sub-freezing
temperatures; I hadn't thought of that. Water- ice in a pail expands
up and doesn't split the pail, maybe something like that would work,
also. l

R,
Tom Q.