[s-cars] 100 octane gas vs. water injection

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In a message dated 11/01/2002 5:37:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
t44tq at mindspring.com writes:

> Considering that the stock IC is so small, it's not
> surprising that water injection has massive gains on
> the UrS. With a Happersize IC, I think the gains would
> be much less, but that's purely speculation. Factory
> STi and Evo cars have water injection- the Evo VII RS
> has a tank in the trunk that is full-width behind the
> rear seatback, must hold 25-30L of water.
>
> Taka
>
>

In my opinion and not specifically knowing these engines, I think they use
water injection becase they are all dyno'ed to a certain max HP and the
teardown specs are recorded so you cant cheat with hardware, you can only
cheat and compete with SW - this can be hidden at post inspection. Since you
cant get more turbo and you are limited on gas, timing is the answer. Timing
causes heat and detonation and water injection is an effective way to keep
rules/hp limited cars competitive. Ever seen one of these cars run a rally?
do you think they are only running 300hp? Now I could certainly be mistaken
about the rules but I think the are limited by a max hp rule
Rod