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Fuel Injection Racing Secrets

Bob — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:05:31 +0000

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HP from RAM AIR

Bob — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:36:57 +0000

Lastest from a reliable dyno source is about 80 horsepower per psi of boost added from ram air. About 2 psi of added psi over 200 MPH in a forward facing injector hat. For a normally aspirated engine that is about 160 HP more from speed over 200 MPH. For a supercharged engine with a 2 / 1 blower boost ratio, that is about 320 HP from ram air. More info about HP & boost in FIRS & 5HPM.

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Bob — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:54:17 +0000

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Bob — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:46:00 +0000

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spare nozzles & jets

Bob — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:06:30 +0000

Use Pro-calc to run your fuel injection jetting prior to a flow bench test, dynamometer test, or race outing. To determine a ball park of the nozzles & jetting needed for a test or outing. How many test sessions are compomised by a shorage of proper nozzles or jets available for the test. Testing is time consuming, involves a lot of people, and expensive. Pro-calc can be used for planning the range of nozzle & jetting sizes to best suit the test.

fuel injection nozzles & jetting challenge

Bob — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:05:32 +0000

The determination of nozzles & jetting in a new fuel injection setup can be a challenge. Our last racer combination was a auto drag race bracket blown methanol engine. It was 438 cubic inches with 12 to one compression. Our jetting calculator determined nozzles & jetting for an optimum air to fuel ratio of 3.4 pounds of air to one pound of fuel. This remained steady in different air densities, blower overdrives, and engine RPM ranges for over 400 drag races.

Our new engine combination is mechanically identical to this previous combination except for a new rotating assembly. Different rods, pistons, & crankshaft now measure 478 cubic inches with 8.3 to one compression. With only these changes, the old nozzle & jetting setup was drunk rich. New nozzles & jetting were quickly revealed in testing that makes a lot higher air to fuel ratio. It is now 4.2 pounds of air to one pound of fuel. All else in our racer combination including the fuel injection & fuel pump remain the same.

We were all surprised how much difference the changes affected the ratio of pounds of air to pounds of fuel. Even with all of our experience with this combination, the determination of nozzles & jetting for the different rotating assembly required a lot of time on the calculator as well as the test track. The calculator allowed us to easily determine a new jetting combination with the same fuel pressure as before (for good engine response) by holding the total jet area the same. It allowed us to stagger the nozzle sizes, holding the total jet area the same.

We converted to port nozzles soon after the first test runs. The calculator allowed us to determine fuel split (illustrated in our fuel injection books) between the hat & port nozzles and the new jetting sizes to achieve that fuel split. It allowed us to determine the nozzle and main bypass sizes to adjust for air density changes from day to day and from hot afternoons to cool evenings.

Nitro spark advance

Bob — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:26:08 +0000

Decreased percentages of nitro richen the racing engine. It would seem that the engine would be less prone to detonation from the enrichment. However, according to Hutchison Racing Engines, Sacramento, CA, USA, that may not be the case. When you decrease the percentage of nitro increasing the percentage of methanol, the spark advance may need to be retarded. The increased methanol in many setups is less tolerant to spark advance. A reduction in spark advance is often necessary to avoid detonation.

Methanol fuel temperature

Bob — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:06:24 +0000

A lot of pit buz that cooler fuel runs better.

METHANOL VAPOR ISSUE: We found in our methanol publication development that only methanol vapor burns. So much of the methanol in the cylinder is liquid, and large & small droplets. And not vapor. Anything that is not vapor does not burn. There is not enough time to vaporize. Furthermore, with liquid methanol in the cylinder, you get ignition vaporization at the expense of ignition.

MAYBE GOOD, MAYBE NOT: In some racer combinations, cooler fuel will be better. That would be the case for a hot day with an engine tuned to the edge of detonation. Yet in another engine, say on a cool day, that is somewhat rich and tuned with more spark advance than the norm, also tuned to a leaner idle than norm for more staging temperature, cooler fuel may not help at all. It will only reduce vaporization and make less power.

TEMP: Below 50 degrees in one atmosphere, there is little to no vaporization. Above 149 deg. in one atmosphere, there is all vapor. At boost and compression, different tune-ups make different temperatures and different amounts of vapor. There are so many different effects on vaporization and the horsepower result that a blanket rule will probably not work across the board.

REFERENCE: We discuss this in great lengths in our methanol publication with a lot of engineering and racer data. Over 30 pages provide Information about temperature. Over 60 pages provide Information about vaporization.

An extensive index of TERMS (6 pages single spaced) can be downloaded from our website; from the book description page. To give an idea of how vast the subject matter is.

Blown alcohol for 2010

Bob — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:22:15 +0000

Just a note about our test engine for this year. We put our blown alcohol engine back together for nitro testing this year.

The setup is the same as our race engine described in our Fuel Injection Racing Secrets book except for about 40 more ci and about 3 to 4 points less compression. With those changes we had to increase the AFR from 3.4 to 4.2 The engine is much more sensitive to manifold fuel distribution than the previous high compression engine and needs to run a lot leaner. Off idle power is less than the previous high compression engine, but high RPM performance is in the ball park of the previous engine.

index of terms and names for methanol book

Bob — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:54:15 +0000

You can download a 6 page index of terms from “5000 Horsepower on Methanol”. You can also download an index of names from this publication as well. Check the shopping page.

ALREADY AN OWNER: These indexes will help to find page numbers for various topics in the manual; such as octane, nitro, temperature, air to fuel ratios, and many others.

CONSIDERING A PURCHASE: These indexes reveal the extent of coverage and the broad range of topics throughout the publiication.