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Message: [QUOTE="golfer, post: 296995, member: 266"] of course you CAN make more power with methanol... it's just much more risky to say...make 50 or 100 or "x" hp with water/meth than by using just diesel fuel & air... methanol is a fuel. a 7.3L engine runs by compressing air/boost ~17.5:1 times in the cylinder bore... If you bring a fuel into the cylinder with the intake air/boost...you, me, no one can control WHEN that fuel (methanol) begins to combust...as that is going to occur whenever the piston moves upward toward TDC creating high heat & pressure. (diesel fuel) Injector TIMING is the only control mechanism that can be used to determine WHEN the fuel should be entering the cylinder...and since (with methanol coming into the cyl with the air)...you will have a pressure spike in the cylinder...trying to force the piston back down its' bore...PRIOR to the fuel injector ever firing. The higher %'s of methanol...the power can be made...but at higher risk to engine damage...since the combustion event timing is out of any ones hands. We run zero methanol in any of our trucks, simply distilled water to act as a 'chemical intercooling'...the evaporative affect of the injected water will cause the boost charge to become more dense (more oxygen molecules for a given volume)..so water alone can add some power...but not much in our experience. I don't think Joe was arguing that power CAN be made with methanol... some guys blow their chit up at 400hp with propane, while others make 650+ on diesel/air for this same exact reason. [/QUOTE]

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