Anyone try methenol injection?
 

A buddy of mine built a custom twin turbo Lexus LS400. He put together a custom methenol injection kit that comes in at a certain boost into the intake pipe. It's like a NOS setup, but is legal and is on at all times. Has anyone tried this? Is it safe to run in a rotary? What do you guess think?

Re: Anyone try methenol injection?
 

you can check out the link in my sig or do a search. Methanol injection is identical to water injection.

been running it for a couple months now on my 3rd gen. sometimes I run methanol/water other times just pure water.

Later.

You actually soundn't use more than 50% methanol (water/methanol sollution) because the methanol itself can pre-detonate in the combustion area. As long as you keep the sollution at or below 50/50 ratio it's a good idea as it'll give you a little extra boom :D

BTW Zerobanger, do you notice an increase in power with the methanol sollution? It could be that it just makes it easier for the spark to ignite the air/fuel mixture.

Im not going to run any methanol anymore. I noticed a build up on the butterfly thingy going into the manifold. Its kinda white-ish almost looks like its was corosion. Then I read that methanol is not good for aluminum, etc. Also my water filter was aluminum on the inside and its all white now and pitted.

I use pure water now with iso alcohol sometimes now. I was only using about 35-40 pct methanol before (from windshield washer fluid).

Everything I read said pure water is best for preventing detonation anyway. :)

oh yea and I felt no difference between pure water and the alc/water combo EXCEPT...on my inital setup when I was running too large of nozzle, it ran better when I added alcohol.

The car pulls like a pitbull even when its 105 outside, its amazing. The best mod you can do to your car and its so damn cheap.

Water does indeed have a higher latent energy. That's something important to know about the methanol affecting the Al, I suppose if you really needed it, you could use Iso Alchohol instead of the methanol. Good info!

Is running methenol the same as denatured alcohol?

No.

Is denatured alcohol safer/cleaner to run than methanol?