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SignUp Now!Originally posted by b4black
The CO2 doesn't sit well with me. Too much like N20. Comes out of a bottle that would need regular filling. I want somethings that's always there and used every time. (But water injection doesn't bother me for some reason.)
Well, I hate N20 myself also. The C02 does't run thu your motor though, just the exh. housing. If it's gonna blow anything up it'll be the turbo at least & not the motor. I've thought of trying this out since I have a few spare turbo's now but I thought if I did I would introduce it sooner in the exhaust system than the housing so it would have time to merge with the exhaust gasses & warm the charge up some. Still it's a pretty hypothetical idea right now & I could only see it being advantagious in a drag race. Also one would have to work out a way to turn it off & on. COLOR=blue]They make lightweight)?) fiberglas bottles for food service.[/COLOR]
The idea I really liked (but have doubts) is the smog pump spooling up the turbine. The factory smog pump line and the up-pipe run right next to each other. Weld a nipple on the up-pipe and connect it to the smog pump with a peice of high-temp rubber hose.
I like that idea also. I figured you wouldn't since you like to keep the smog stuff hooked up I thought. The pump should add volume across the whole rpm range & hopefully off-idle where more volume=more spool. I thought an easy way to test this out would be to remove the O2 sensor & run a hose from the smog pump to the O2 hole. I know this wouldn't be right to drive around with it that way but iy might give you an idea of what kind of volume you could get out of it.
[Since my system is apart right now & I'm not planning on hooking up the smog stuff due to the fact it's all in such sad shape. I should have a nipple welded in the up pipe like you were saying & give it a shot. I didn't know what the heck I was gonna do with that huge a/c, smog pump, alt. bracket anyway. I happen to have a new smog pump we tried out on Tonyas T-type also I could probabley talk her out of it.
What did you think about the Air Amplifiers idea? That idea seemed to make sense to me. The main draw back would be having to have a storage tank & a strong 12V compressor. I've looked around some & they aren't as uncommon as I thought. I even seen an overpriced fancier Jap. version that electronically metered the amout of air going into your intake tract that's supposed to keep the ideal amount of positive pressure blowing thru the carb/injector. It was like $2,000 though![]()
I like experimenting, but I also believe in the KISS theory (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
Originally posted by mygrain
Tell me more about this CO2 injection.Another thought that I was throwing around was to use a TPI manifold with the injector bungs welded up and get it all hogged out and use The blade on the front of it as the throttle control. Ive heard that the closer the valve is to the cylinders, the less lag you have. True or no? I could just run the carbs WOT all the time and control the throttle with the blade on the manifold. I have got to get a CAD program so I can start drawing this stuff up. I am taking all opinions into consideration here, even those of the skeptics
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Sounds like you have a workable project on your hands.Originally posted by mygrain
hmm... A single turbo mounted right in front of the manifold, with a draw thru side draft webe carb and CO2 injection to use as a psuedo intercooler could just maybe work. I know Ive got that manifold laying around here somewhere, and those vortec truck heads. Toss in an old Lunati roller cam and some shorty tube headers and custom bend a few pieces up front and I think Ive got a real set up going on here.
Originally posted by mygrain
I wanted to use a K&N cone filter with some sort of cold air induction.