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| Water Injection Join Date: Jul 2006
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| First off I'd like to say this car was made on a budget. It has made over 100 1/4 mile passes and hurt the feelings of many local street rodders. Up to date I have not spent over 7k total on this car. I'm not looking to win any appearance awards. The car does what it was meant to do and I have alot of fun with it. The motor and trans had 128k on them when installed. Since I have rebuilt the trans. Motor is still running strong. Even stronger now with the Progressive Controller. My previous best was 11.89 at 116 mph... I had already made my own DIY alcohol injection kit . I'm only useing the Devils Own Progressive Controller. My kit was pieced together and for the price of a Devils Own complete kit I would DEFINATLY reccomend going that route. My setup would look alot nicer, and cost me less money if I did. But again I race my car, I'm not very concerned about cosmetics. Heres the install... I used a 2.5 gallon gas tank as my methanol resevoir. Directly under it is s shur flo 1.8 GPM pump set at 160psi max. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyway this thing installed in less than an hour and I am running 22* total timing on 91 octane at 25lbs of boost! This is a te-61 turbo. I am getting no knock retard/detonation. And best of all There is no lag. I don't even feel this thing come on. System is set to come on at 3lbs of boost and ramp up pump voltage/pressure per lb of boost until it maxes out. EGT's have dropped about 250* or so. I'm at around 1560*. I'm sure with some more tweaking I can squeeze a little more timing and boost. |
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http://www.turbobuicks.com/forums/sh...147#post445147 As long as this unit keeps doing what it is doing I'm amazed and very happy with it. | |
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| With a 1.5 60' I would have been in the tens! alcohol kit works awesome.... But the boost comes on so quickly now even at a 0lb launch I blow the tires off! ![]() |
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| Updated times... Running a larger te-45a turbo (66mm) 25lbs of boost and 25* timing. All on 91 octane and progressive 99.9% race methanol. 10 seconds runs... driven to the track with drag radials... ;) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Alcohol Water Injection Year: 1991 Make: Mazda Model: Miata Join Date: Oct 2007
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| That's a really sweet swap. I am thinking about doing the same but in to a Miata. I am researching to see what parts I will need and how much it might cost me. Hopefully, I will get close to your times.
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