Is water injection really necessary or it is just a new gimmick?
Well, yes and no. For the old-fashioned traditional engine tuners with fixed ideas and blinkered outlook, water injection is regarded as an utter nonsense and a complete waste of time. Engines are designed to consume FUEL and not WATER. On the other side of the coin, engineers such as Sir Harry Ricardo (1930s) and bunch of aeronautic engineers (German, English and American) during the WWII (1940s) has found the positive side of injecting water into their supercharged fighter-plane engines. So the traditional began, Formula 1 engines (1980s) used it. We supplied the SAAB 9-5 an OE part and now World Rally cars use it (1995 onwards). We leave you to decide … Whenever a problem is discovered; there is always a tendency to solve it, that is human nature. Old problems just keep re-surfacing, detonation, fuel quality; harmful emissions etc, despite the advancement of Electronics and Engineering materials available. 23.
