My pleasure!

The booth from SEMA:



The tank, pump and accumulator:



The water line (red) and injector nozzle. [you can also see the high speed valve with the little blue arrow on it right below the oil cap in the pic]



-- DavidV

 

I stand corrected. Since the WRX uses a top-mount intercooler, it might make sense to spray before the intercooler on these cars.

That said, I still maintain that the in-cylinder cooling (most important feature of the Aquamist system, IMO) is better achieved through spraying after the intercooler about 6 inches from the throttle body or as close as practicable thereabouts.

I had long talks with Mike Kojima, writer for Sport Compact Car magazine and of the early pioneers of the Aquamist system for street performance here in the U.S.

On my MR2, he advised me to place the nozzle approx. 6 inches from the throttle body for optimal water droplet size. He used the same approach on the SCC project 300zx and SE-R with great results. His analysis from a recent installment on the 300zx project is as follows:

http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/pr...scc_proj300zx/

"The Aquamist water injection system uses a unique proprietary atomizer nozzle to introduce the water to the intake air stream. The nozzle produces a range of droplet sizes from a fine fog to a coarse mist. This helps the water work more efficiently. The fine water fog vaporizes almost immediately, helping reduce the intake air temperature by about 20 to 30 degrees. The larger droplets do not vaporize until they reach the combustion chamber where they can perform their internal cooling and combustion buffering duties. All of the droplets are small enough where the even distribution of water throughout the manifold plenum is assured. Since most modern fuel injected cars have manifolds that are designed to flow dry air only, not a mixture of liquid and air, the maintenance of correct water droplet size is critical for even cylinder-to-cylinder water distribution."

-- DavidV

 

Does miss molson come with the water injection system?

 

(1) It is not different

(2) No, there is no side effect from doing so (within reason, of course).

-- DavidV

 

The pump is completely shielded.

-- DavidV

 

What are we talking about, water injection or intercooler sparying. I think you should clear up water injection and intercooler spraying. JDM STI's have i/c sprayers not water injection. Water injection is when you spray water into the combustion chamber to lower egt's, not spray at i/c to get lower intake temps.

 

DavidV, has anyone using your kit expirimented with a solution of water and hydrogen peroxide. I've talked to some GN guys, and a couple Merkur owners who were expirimenting with this but never figured an optimal ratio since too much would blow the motor (not to mention that hydrogen peroxide is highly corosive to engine parts). My father and I have been talking about this for years and now that I have a WRX it might be time to try it out.

-Jim