APPLICATION LIMITATIONS
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This system can cope with cars which only need water to suppress detonation. As mentioned on previous sections, some engines on certain application do not have to endure all the punishment required on race track conditions. A modified road car occasionally suffers from detonation problems because the simplest way to gain power is to either increase compression ratio or winding up the boost pressure, sometimes without modifying the fueling and ignition curves. In most cases substantial power increase can be obtained with the right operating conditions, but these adventurous conversions will run into detonation problems in high ambient air temperatures, especially when accelerating hard out of a long slow traffic jam. During these conditions, water injection is extremely useful to cool the engine internally until the car attains a reasonable speed so air can contribute to the standard cooling system. When installing the simple water injection system, the trip-in point of the pressure switch for the application should be just below the maximum boost pressure so consumption of water is relatively low. Only occasional checking of the water tank is necessary.
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