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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:32, Matthew Jones wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ginger & Peter > > > > The methanol/water mixture was scary due to the water, maybe hydro > > lock the engine and ?? What about the pure methanol? > > Methanol/water would probably have been OK for a short run. > > Isn't methanol what "alcohol" dragsters burn. IIRC it does burn very hot. > Some of them have water injection to cool the engine. In the combustion > chamber the water droplets boil to steam, which uses up a lot of thermal > energy (latent heat of ... er ... vapourisation?). > They use methanol, and nitro methane. The nitro methane is what gives them the power. The cool burning of the methanol is what keeps the pistons from melting. I have seen the results of a wrong mix of funny car fuel. My brother used to build Karl Moyer's funny car engines. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~