I am in the process of installing mine on my '91 GSX. I am home building it from tips and plans from the GN boards!! I am hoping I can get the same gains you've seen. Every little bit helps in the street wars!!!

Rick - '91 GSX soon with an alcohol IV

 

I've had water /alcohol injection for about and year now it's one of my best investments!! Should come stock on turbo cars!

 

excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is alcohol injection? Apparently, it is some way of mixing alcohol with fuel to essentially raise the octane, but how is this system accomplished? is it a custom thing or are kits sold?

 

I am also thinking seriously about buying an alcy kit from a guy in Virg". I have friends who race GNs with alcy and they love it. Like you said its the best investment to offset the cost of running race gas.


Alcy lower the temp in the combustion chamber therefore allowing you to run higer boost=more power output! Most sys
inject the alcy as a mist before teh throttle body so by the time it reaches the combust..chamb...it would have already evap...

Pros...not corrosive like water
helps clean you chamber etc...etc...much more....

BTW...I think if you have an alcy setup you will not need to buy the outrageous FMIC because the alcy has the same function!

 

http://www.geocities.com/rad87gn/tech/alcohol.html

This will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about alky injection.

The most popular kit with the GNs and several 3000 GTs and Stealth vr4s is the Stever Chelupsa kit.

 

I've been thinking about this for a while now too. You guys just pushed me over the edge. Now i have to do it, no $15 a gal for race gas. An extra 3-6 psi whatch out baby!

Clinton
1990 Talon Tsi Awd @17 psi

 

I have it , when i had it set up on my side mount, it got rid of almost all my knock! I was seeing about 12-15 before and droped it to liek 4 or 5 kncok sum. I also did some test at the track. I ran a 13.9 with it hooked up, let the car cool back down and unhooked it and ran a 14.1, another thing that is impresive about this is that the second run felt better, the shifts were smother.


eric

 

I have it , when i had it set up on my side mount, it got rid of almost all my knock! I was seeing about 12-15 before and droped it to liek 4 or 5 kncok sum. I also did some test at the track. I ran a 13.9 with it hooked up, let the car cool back down and unhooked it and ran a 14.1, another thing that is impresive about this is that the second run felt better, the shifts were smother.


eric

Where in the engine compartment did you mount the alcy bottle...I can't seem to find a space to mount that bottle...

BTW..thanks for providing that link about BLACK6PACK...COOL!

 

Do the battery relocation, should give you lots of room, thats what im going to do.

Clinton
1990 Talon Tsi Awd @17 psi

 

Where or from who can these kit's be purchased??? I would love to push my boost up further. Sound's like da shit. Here's a question.....Couldn't you just pour some alky in your gas tank or would it ruin the pump?????

 

Yes you can pour alcy in your gas I do it all the time!

but you need a mixture of 30/70, that 30% gas 70% alcy......








Darn it bouy!...............NO YOU CANT!

 

Who sells the kits??????

 

If you go to the link I provided above and go to the bottom of the page there are links to different kits. There is also a link to the DO IT YOURSELF kit. The most popular kit among the GNs and TT mitsubishis is the Steve Chelupsa kit. That is the kit I have on my GN and would recomend it to anyone.

 

Ninja7 how long have you been mixing alky in your gas??? 30% gas with 70% Alky???? hmmmm......

 

If you look at the bottom of his post he says NO YOU CAN'T. He was joking with me I believe

 

The question I would now ask is> Do I need to upgrade my side mount if I go the alcy route....


I run 30/70 gas/alcy all day long... LEE! matter of fact I have an alcy account with Wal-Mart...I just pull up and tell them to fill her up ..

 

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Will the aquamist system push pure alcohol, I read on there site they dont recommend over a 50/50 mix, what makes these systems different. I plan on getting a aquamist system... some time in the future. Could you modify the aquamist to run pure alcohol? Thanks

 

Check out the Steve Chelupsa kit. It has several bells and whistles that make it stand out above the rest, and also makes it an ease for tuning. 4 WOT blasts in the GN and I had it tuned in.

 

Check out the Steve Chelupsa kit. It has several bells and whistles that make it stand out above the rest, and also makes it an ease for tuning. 4 WOT blasts in the GN and I had it tuned in.

Hey you are right I saw the setup in a GN and it was well mounted and seemed really easy to tune. I spoke to Steve and he even gave me the option of mounting the bottle in the rear of car, since I dont have the space in the engine compartment.

His system seem to be a proven one with most of you GN guys so I think we DMSers should see the same success!