Howdy folks,
My name is Brian D. Cain and I'm new to the forum. I was referred to Turbobuick.com by a buddy of mine up in Green Bay, WI named Howard Coleman. He's Howracer on this forum and only has a few posts; all I believe limited to this section.
I am not a turbo Buick owner, much less a domestic vehicle owner. I am a Mazda rotary engine guy (builder and modifier) who also does tuning around the country of Mazda Rx7's as well as standalone fuel injection installations and what not. I've been into this for about 10 years now.
Since part of my trade is being a tuner, I'm always out trying to find a better way to go faster, do things better, and more importantly do things more reliably. The Mazda rotary engine (RE) has some reliability issues and I think they stem from their greater amount of heat output relative to that of a piston engine, load for load, which challenges even the best pump gas when it comes to trying to make good power out of them ...
... which is what leads me here, to this section of the forum. I've been researching the use of water and alcohol injection and, ever since being just recently turned on to Julio's AlkyControl system with the variable load injection, I've been seriously considering pursuing such a system setup by him for our cars. Btw Julio, I need to call you this week to talk to you about the systems you've got and what can be put together. I have all of the numbers as far as fuel flow, load, and what not.
After reading everything I could get my hands on involving this subject, I am absolutely sold on the idea that alcohol injection, 100% over water, is the solution to not only any reliability problems present with pump gas, but is also a way of attaining the best of both worlds -- the effective octane rating of race fuel under heavier loads yet while still retaining lower octane, more volatile fuel for lower loads such as idle, throttle, and vacuum-area acceleration.
The problem with our rotary engine community, as it stands, is there isn't a real drive for any kind of "auxilliary injection", much less a drive to do anything "outside the box" in a way that would cater to the engineering or scientific side of things (really looking at the car and the engine by the numbers instead of with the ideaology of just 'throwing parts' at it and going for big numbers). Given what I'm learning about alky injection, I'd like to take advantage of it and change the community's approach when it comes to making power, truly and reliably.
Anyhoo, I hope I don't offend anyone here or get driven off for asking technical questions re: alcohol injection even though it's for the rotary motor and not tailoured towards what you guys normally do. The engine architectures aside, I expect the math, science, and engineering of it to be the same between the two.
I hope to learn alot from this forum and can't wait to delve into alcohol injection! Expect to hear from me soon!
B
My name is Brian D. Cain and I'm new to the forum. I was referred to Turbobuick.com by a buddy of mine up in Green Bay, WI named Howard Coleman. He's Howracer on this forum and only has a few posts; all I believe limited to this section.
I am not a turbo Buick owner, much less a domestic vehicle owner. I am a Mazda rotary engine guy (builder and modifier) who also does tuning around the country of Mazda Rx7's as well as standalone fuel injection installations and what not. I've been into this for about 10 years now.
Since part of my trade is being a tuner, I'm always out trying to find a better way to go faster, do things better, and more importantly do things more reliably. The Mazda rotary engine (RE) has some reliability issues and I think they stem from their greater amount of heat output relative to that of a piston engine, load for load, which challenges even the best pump gas when it comes to trying to make good power out of them ...
... which is what leads me here, to this section of the forum. I've been researching the use of water and alcohol injection and, ever since being just recently turned on to Julio's AlkyControl system with the variable load injection, I've been seriously considering pursuing such a system setup by him for our cars. Btw Julio, I need to call you this week to talk to you about the systems you've got and what can be put together. I have all of the numbers as far as fuel flow, load, and what not.
After reading everything I could get my hands on involving this subject, I am absolutely sold on the idea that alcohol injection, 100% over water, is the solution to not only any reliability problems present with pump gas, but is also a way of attaining the best of both worlds -- the effective octane rating of race fuel under heavier loads yet while still retaining lower octane, more volatile fuel for lower loads such as idle, throttle, and vacuum-area acceleration.
The problem with our rotary engine community, as it stands, is there isn't a real drive for any kind of "auxilliary injection", much less a drive to do anything "outside the box" in a way that would cater to the engineering or scientific side of things (really looking at the car and the engine by the numbers instead of with the ideaology of just 'throwing parts' at it and going for big numbers). Given what I'm learning about alky injection, I'd like to take advantage of it and change the community's approach when it comes to making power, truly and reliably.
Anyhoo, I hope I don't offend anyone here or get driven off for asking technical questions re: alcohol injection even though it's for the rotary motor and not tailoured towards what you guys normally do. The engine architectures aside, I expect the math, science, and engineering of it to be the same between the two.
I hope to learn alot from this forum and can't wait to delve into alcohol injection! Expect to hear from me soon!
B
