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Old 24-09-2011, 09:30 PM
4drturbo 4drturbo is offline
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Default Re: WI and running rich

Thanks for the reply!
The Mopar Stage 3 fuel setup consists of a fuel rail with a FPR built into it. Once the car goes into boost it raises fuel pressure up to 75psi. No way to really alter that. There is a handheld tuner called a DiabloSport that I am looking into getting. Will be able to really alter things with that. Stage 3 consists of a 3 bar map sensor and a new TIP sensor among other things, like bigger turbo/manifold, injectors, and a new PCM.

I got a couple replies on a Dodge forum...kind of confused about even running WI now.

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Originally Posted by The Pope View Post
looks like you need a bigger turbo more than the injection system. The turbo will lean the fuel a bit and cool in the intake charge, also really dropping the pumping forces reducing the WGA opening pressure.

Looks more like your trying to cure a problem by causing more of it. If your already too rich don't drown the engine.lean it back to 13:1 and add injection.

SRTs have 540 injectors last I checked, 340 is smaller than a 87 2.2 T2 injector....

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have the stage 3 turbo by it self on my PT. But your going to need more turbo to get past your fueling, past your fueling is where you start using the injection.

when you add water to a metal / chemical fire it explodes because the temps are high enough to release the energy in the nitrogen in the water. Toss water on a cool camp fire and you just put it out. Lean it out with a bigger turbo and more than use up the stage 3 fuel, then have the injection come on at high boost to get more power.
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Water does richen the mixture as it displaces volume normally occupied by air.
Adding methanol to the mix will make it cool more readily as meth has a very low latent heat point and it dramatically reduces the surface tension of the water.
Water IS going through your engine, did you think it was disappearing before the chamber?
Adding 50% methanol to the mix will richen it only 3.6% (assuming water is 10% of fuel).
This will be offset by 1.5% more lean the reaction will become with 50% less water.
So in total if you add meth your A/F's will change by 1.1% and that is negligible, especially when your already so rich.
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it is assumed that the water injection is a water meth injection. You should end up around 11 with meth. But to start out before you hit the button should be around 13. I didn't say 13 after injection nor did I mention the size of the s3 injectors, I was commenting on the injector size mentioned.

boost is not the best way to get it lean. Small turbo create massive horse power killing drive pressure and heat trying to burn off that extra fuel. The best way to lean it is with cool intake boost and less drive pressure, IE bigger than stage 3 turbo. Then when you hit the button there is more room to get the extra HP, vs starting with an already max volume setup and trying to force more through it.....

Much like building a car for nitrous. You go just a little bigger on exhaust and carb, so you gain back what you lost when the button is pushed, you build for nitrous. Same thing, you have to build for where it ends up after the injection system hits
Thanks for your time.
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