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Originally Posted by sperry
Yeah Dean, it would really suck to get 60 mpg, an extra 40 hp, and better cooling w/o a radiator, all for having to fill up 2/3 gas 1/3 water, especially since water costs 1/3rd the price of gas.
BTW, BWM already has a working prototype of a water/steam system, though I don't know if it uses the 6-stroke concept.
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I'll beleive it when I see it. water is not magic. it will need a delivery system, it's own tank and it weighs more than gas, etc. And who says it is cheaper than gas? You show me a nationwide distilled water distribution system in the quntities that we are talking about that delivers it at thousands of stations accross the counntry for less than gas, and I'll believe it.
I hope it is the answer to all our problems, but I'm not convinced. High pressure water vapor/steam if you prefer is going to squeeze through the smallest spaces in piston rings, scrub the lubrication from the cylinder walls, etc. Sounds like a bad recipe for a engine making any kind of torque.
And don't forget you have to stop the engine at some point. what happens to the cylinder that is full of unexhausted water vapor? can you say oxidation? Maybe we will have stainless or ceramic blocks.
And notice he hasn't managed to get it on a dyno, but is sure it makes more power...
Hope I'm wrong, but my pesimistic side is winning this one, and I say the glass is 3/4s empty.