[Chrysler300] Octane and water might mix

[Rich Barber <barber@xxxxxxxxx>]

(Retransmitted due to rejection of the HTML in the website 
addresses-someday I'll learn)

After visiting the staginglight site, below, I then spotted this 
interesting site by an Englishman
and it provides some additional detail on raw gasoline, tetraethyl lead 
and MTBE. 
Tetraethyl lead and oxygenates such as MTBE, methanol and ethanol do add 
energy
to the combustion process, but are lower in energy content than gasoline.

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/leadtet/leadh.htm

One of the commentators spoke to water injection in bomber engines and 
indicated the
oxygen in the water was used in the combustion process. 
Not, so, to my knowledge.  The water would not break down in the 
combustion process. 
The water injection was required to cool the combustion chamber 
temperature of highly
supercharged engines that were designed for operation at high altitudes. 
During takeoff at lower levels with the heaviest bomb and fuel load, the 
engines
would be damaged without the water, which of course turned to steam and 
sopped
up excess heat energy during takeoff and low-level flight. 
Water injection is also used to cool the inlet air by evaporation in 
certain combustion engines,
especially gas turbines driving electric generators that lose a lot of 
power at high ambient temperatures. 
Careful dosing of combustion air with distilled water will cool the 
inlet air of any engine,
thus increasing its potential power output.  Hard or soft water will 
likely leave its mineral content in the engine.

Rich Barber
Brentwood, CA
1955 CCC


Chuck McGill wrote:

Hi Gang,

 Here's some interesting reading on the subject.

 http://www.staginglight.com/guide/octane.html

May your new year be your best year.

Chuck
San Jose, Ca.




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