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Originally Posted by moebius
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read those, the relevant bit is at the bottom of the wiki page. the other two are pretty crap...
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Seriously, I was thinking that on certain older cars - late 70's in particular, they came with an "Air Pump" - or "smog pump" also called "air injection". The idea was to help burn off un-combusted hydro carbons to help improve smog producing gases.
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tell me more tell me more :-)
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HOWEVER, in this case, just a little extra air could go a long way.
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yes, yes it could.
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The smog pump kits for holdens/chevys/fords should not be too expensive... In theory, it's like a little super charger. Put an electromagnetic clutch in, so it only engages less than 3000 rpm, and you've much faster spooling on your turbo - - a supercharger for your exhaust gas.... in effect. Of course, the problem is keeping the hot exhaust gases out of the air pump, but you know...
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4 check valves and some fab is easy stuff for me. i'd have to look into how much volume they could pump out.
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I think it would a lot safer, and longer lasting than the injection skipping trick that STW is using - more work, since you'd need additionaly hardware, and you'd have to do some additonal fabrication (mount it off of the Alternator.... ) but, it ought to work.
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safer for the engine, but less safe for the manifold and turbo. i think its going to be fine though.
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Just another point of view. The whole fuel injection into the manifold is rather off putting to me. But then, my bias is towards reliability.
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the fuel goes into the cylinders overly rich, and is still only partially burnt when it exits again. thus you are just burning the leftovers all of a sudden later rather than a whole lot just for antilag thats been all the way through the engine and is burning as it exits. ie, there is no fuel injection into the exhaust. its just running uber rich. and in the case of the half arsed type, the throttle stays open a little too, and you end up needing a vac pump to operate the brakes.
fred.