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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by stevieturbo
How much boost are you using ? Are intake temps at a level where you need water injection ?
What compression ratio ? Is your engine knock limited at present ?

If you're pushing the turbo to it's limits, then injection pre turbo can be a good thing. If not, then less so.

If intake temps after the IC are still very high, then injecting between the IC and Throttle can be of help.
If they are low and the injected liquid may not actually vaporise, then port injection may make the most sense. Especially as your intake manifold probably wont promote even liquid distribution to each cylinder

Although with port injection, your IAT sensor will not see the changes, so if any tuning compensations rely on seeing this change, it may be important.

AEM do a flow meter with a 0-5v output, which is the safest way to apply tuning changes when water/meth is being injected. If for any reason the system fails, this is the safety backup. No tuning adjustments will take place. Obviously you need an ecu that can make use of this though.

Aquamist have actually just released some nice nozzles with built in check valves intended for port injection usage. Saves using solenoids to control flow.

Of course it all depends on the complexity of a setup you want. Is it something simple, or fancy ?
thanks for your replys,

i will try and answer some of your questions

compression ratio is either 9-1 or 10-1 its not very low will check though

will be running up to 20psi of boost, but not that level all the time

i am restriced to space and are worried about heat. i want to run water injection to maximise perormance for what i have built

turbo isnt being pushed to its limit so post turbo location will be fine,

ive won a snow performace kit which work with boost pressure on eBay just waiting for it to turn up to see what ive got to start with. it has no nozzle so will need to spec one and buy one.

i wated to run the kit to lower inlet temp but not to change the timing of the engine if that makes sense im not chasing out and out power so dont want to engine to rely on water injection other wise it will blow up.
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