New OEM water injection user

[Richard L]

Guess who has adopted water injection on their car?

Answer

[Flr Power]

BMW, unreal.

This might give a boost to your bussiness...

[Richard L]

Originally Posted by Flr Power

BMW, unreal.

This might give a boost to your bussiness...

We have lost a 250K+ of business after the WRC bnned the use of water injection on 2006. We were the sole supplier to all those teams.

[maxc]

Originally Posted by Richard L

We have lost a 250K+ of business after the WRC bnned the use of water injection on 2006. We were the sole supplier to all those teams.

Do have a copy of the "WRC rule on water injection"?

[Richard L]

I was told by our customers, WI is no longer allowed from 2006. I did not look into this in any details, just accepted it.

I did write to FIA to unbanned it with almost all the benefits highlighted by the the current BMW blog. I never received any reply.

I attended and spoke out one of the official motorsport conferences called "Green Motorsport", no results on that either. During the conference I raised the topic of applying water injection on reducing nitrous emission on road cars but he dismissed the idea and assured me their FSI technology has taken care of this.

Currently, cars with 3-way cat (95%) uses nitrous trap, and purge them with occasional CO rich exhaust gas. If you are interested I will try digging out the article. They called it "Lean Nox Trap Regeneration", technical or simply "dumping fuel".

[HYDE16]

I saw that, really cool stuff! What's even more interesting is that the OE ECU is now controlling pump fuel injectors/pump and water injectors/pump. I'm interested to know the jets used and if they require service/cleaning. Also, the location and quantity of jets used.

It will be interesting how they overcome every little problem. They use three jets shared between 6 cylinders runners.

[Richard L]

Originally Posted by HYDE16

I saw that, really cool stuff! What's even more interesting is that the OE ECU is now controlling pump fuel injectors/pump and water injectors/pump. I'm interested to know the jets used and if they require service/cleaning. Also, the location and quantity of jets used.

It will be interesting how they overcome every little problem. They use three jets shared between 6 cylinders runners.

[parmas]

More info on :

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/02/13/b...stem/#image-14

[Richard L]

We welcome this new entry, it gives the water injection concept much needed creditability. Over the years, we have so much negative comments such as band aid etc.

We all know it is a sound concept, now at last a manufactures adopted it. It took them nine years after every WRC cars were using it. (1992-2006). I just wish the WRC un-bans it.

[parmas]

I am curious what pressure are they atomizing and what nozzle hole dimensions are they using !

If anybody comes with an answer, please post it