by cselby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mar 9, 2008 at 01:49 AM
>I dunno, Bill. I remember hearing as a teenager many
>moons ago that cars ran better on foggy nights because
>the moist air gives a boost through a "steam engine"
>effect in addition to the gasoline burn.
>
Back in ther day. When I was just staring out in the 'business', I
had a car come in that was badly carboned up. My boss heated the
engine up to near boiling and upended a 10 oz coke bottle full of
water into the carb - engine running at 3500-4000 rpm. It was amazing
to watch the water being sucked out of the bottle at slow rate and it
wasn't just water vapour coming out the exhaust. There was a lot of
black crap as well. That engine ran considerably better than when it
came in. Allegedly, the water blasts into steam and the shock
fractures and breaks out carbon deposits.
Some years later, I was tearing an engine down and 2 of the piston
tops were badly pitted. Looked like tiny bombs craters. The valves
for those holes looked 'cleaner' as well. I learned that this was a
result of water blasting (cavitating ) the pistons for an extended
time. The look was different than antifreeze blasting.
This was back in the day - when people did some strange things like
drain the antifreeze in the summer and replace it with water because
you only needed afreeze in the winter and there was sense in wasting
it when it was warm. Or flatten all the tires in the fall and pump in
winter air for winter driving - also known as winterizing the car.
And then there was the guy who came in once a month like clockwork to
have the choke reset and the timing checked to maintain his 12 yr old
car warranty. And don't even think about driving the car with lites
on during the day and wasting electricity.
Pete
