(Very interesting question) Running Methanol on a V6?

Juans_93_MX3 · Post by **Juans_93_MX3** » October 30th, 2005, 1:02 am

It is spelled “Methanol”, right?
Anyway, there are two people at this AutoZone I have talked to who say they Methanol injected their cars. One of them drives a 92 Mustang GT and the other drives some Camaro.
I don’t know anything about this methanol but supposebly it has helped them take a second off their 1/4mile times. They now run 12s and 13s now

They explained to me some other stuff like how they use their windshield wipe reservoir to store the fluid (scary) and how they had to make a custom intake and sometype of injector… pretty much like a carburetor?

Has anyone heard of the advantages of methanol?
How does it work with a engine?

vozaday2000 · Post by **vozaday2000** » October 30th, 2005, 1:03 am

it is a little bit harder on the engine. it takes twice as much methanol as it does regular gas. so you would need larger injectors. yes it would improve the time, nascar runs methanol, but you are shortening the life of your engine.

ocshaman · Post by **ocshaman** » October 30th, 2005, 7:29 am

Methanol Injection is a extra fluid for use with boosted engines.

Also known as alcohol injection or water injection

Check out these links

http://home.att.net/~stevemon/AlcoholInjMod.html
http://www.turbomirage.com/water.html
http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/physics/u4b2phy.html
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~petermca ... index.html
http://www.geocities.com/rad87gn/tech/alcohol.html
http://www.geocities.com/rad87gn/tech/SteveCkit.html
http://www.markphillips.net/wi.html
http://home.ccci.org/Key_Information/2n ... ection.htm
http://autospeed.com/A_0115/P_1/article.html
http://www.ipass.net/~jdennis/images/h2o/

babyblueMX3 · Post by **babyblueMX3** » October 30th, 2005, 7:35 am

yup water injection is what it's called..it's a mix you spray intake the intake piping (kind of like nitrous) but it lowers the intake charge temperature a lot. lower temps = higher power

mostly used on F/I applications though since a turbo generates a lot of heat

ocshaman · Post by **ocshaman** » October 30th, 2005, 9:10 am

P.S. I would not consider using this for an NA application unless you are lacking the octane to run HI CR or N2O. I can say that periodically introducing water/seafoam/whatever through a vacuum hose will help you idle you car a little better, and might help reduce ping if you have some.