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colintandy:
think you will find that most of the top notch rally teams use a system called aqaumist technology in which there is a fine mist sprayed into the engine which helps the effect of pinking when the engine is under preasure ect..which helps increase the ignition timming which in turn helps with touqe i was speaking to a company yesterday about water cooling injection systems and they make kits up some work on ecu and others work from boost preasure which you set when to spray and they also do a kit for water cooling the intercooler which can also be set on boost preasure or a computer ecu controlled unit as being water it sounds daft but its only a fine mist no more than the fine fog you get early in the mornings but enough to cool air charging to make a differnce in touqe and power its all good news for petrol  but not to sure on the diesel side im researching this subject now will keep posted regards colin

GADGETP38:
Yep, did that...........................

got an old washer jet pump and ran pipe from washer reservoir to pump and then to a jet which sprayed the intercooler. If you get in contact with a subaru dealer or a "max power" type outlet they will get you a jet for the end of the tube which subaru imprezas use, it gives a fine mist over a wide area rather than a jet of water. The whole thing cost me about £12 to do and oyou could tell the difference on hot days esp. and also if you needed a bit more umph to get up a hill just "push da buddon" and thus more power.
I did this on a 110 with the old td engine which I had an allisport full width intercooler fitted. The intercooler lade a difference and the mist spray gave it a bit more again.
 :lol:

Range Rover Blues:
There's a world of difference between spark ignition engines and compression ignition, firstly that 'pinking' is how a Diesel engine works, so reducing it is a bad idea.  I can see how using CO2 would help, perhaps a little too much, but why not just fit a bigger intercooler, more surface are and less restriction in one go.  And if you're going to carry compressed gas around, why not add and LPG kit?

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