anderson750
I'm working on it Rose
- Location
- Price, Utah
Title of this thread is largely due to L.T., since I posted about the addition of a water/methanol kit on my truck in his project built for towing thread. A little background on what I am running is as follows:
With all of the deletes and programmer, I have no shortage of power or torque, just EGT's that climb really quick. I can pull up most climbs like Spanish Fork Canyon at 60 mph.........I am just having to keep a really close eye on the EGT's. Thus the reason for the addition of the Water/Methanol injection. Most of the research I have done, shows that you should see a 200-300 degree drop in EGT's under load. There are some other benefits that include some extra HP & torque, but that is not what I am looking for in the addition......just the lower temps.
With the kit, you can run straight water or a water/methanol mixture. They report that you get better cooling with the water/methanol, so I will try them both. For the water/methanol, you can buy the boost juice or just run the blue window washer fluid since it is 49% methanol. My reporting of results will not be overly scientific, but more seat of the pants and what I see. There are so many factors that can change the result, like ambient temp, head wind, etc, that I don't really want to over think it.
The kit I went with was the Snow Performance MPG Max. It is the same as there Tow Max, except for it has an option for running constant injection. The system is a pretty straight forward and easy install for anybody with basic mechanical skills and 2 good arms. Since I destroyed my shoulder and had to have surgery, it was going to be about 3-4 months before I could do the install myself, so I took it to a friend that works at a local shop and had him do it. The pictures I have don't necessarily tell the whole story since I had to get some work done and James probably did not want me hanging around the whole time watching and taking pictures..
Kit comes with a 7 gallon plastic tank. I am planning on adding a larger tank, but am doing some research on what metal based material will not corrode with a constant exposre to water or intermittent exposure to methanol. Any advice here is appreciated.
James mounted the pump under my bed and the solonoids next to the pump. The other thing in that picture is an electric ball valve that I have a switch for in the cab that dumps fuel into the main tank from the auxillary tank you can see in the picture above
The intake was removed, drilled and tapped for the injectors.
The kit also adds a port to monitor the boost.
I already have an EGT probe that was added when I did the delete kit and it is mounted in the block off plate above where cylinder 6 is in the manifold. I could have used this probe with the kit, but wanted to have a comparison of what my programmer reports the EGT's to be and what the temp is at the neck of the manifold above where it enters the turbo.
- 2011 Dodge 3500 Dually with 6 speed Auto
- 6.7L Cummins
- H&S mini max tuner
- EGR delete
- DPF delete
- 5" turbo back exhaust
- AFE intake
With all of the deletes and programmer, I have no shortage of power or torque, just EGT's that climb really quick. I can pull up most climbs like Spanish Fork Canyon at 60 mph.........I am just having to keep a really close eye on the EGT's. Thus the reason for the addition of the Water/Methanol injection. Most of the research I have done, shows that you should see a 200-300 degree drop in EGT's under load. There are some other benefits that include some extra HP & torque, but that is not what I am looking for in the addition......just the lower temps.
With the kit, you can run straight water or a water/methanol mixture. They report that you get better cooling with the water/methanol, so I will try them both. For the water/methanol, you can buy the boost juice or just run the blue window washer fluid since it is 49% methanol. My reporting of results will not be overly scientific, but more seat of the pants and what I see. There are so many factors that can change the result, like ambient temp, head wind, etc, that I don't really want to over think it.
The kit I went with was the Snow Performance MPG Max. It is the same as there Tow Max, except for it has an option for running constant injection. The system is a pretty straight forward and easy install for anybody with basic mechanical skills and 2 good arms. Since I destroyed my shoulder and had to have surgery, it was going to be about 3-4 months before I could do the install myself, so I took it to a friend that works at a local shop and had him do it. The pictures I have don't necessarily tell the whole story since I had to get some work done and James probably did not want me hanging around the whole time watching and taking pictures..
Kit comes with a 7 gallon plastic tank. I am planning on adding a larger tank, but am doing some research on what metal based material will not corrode with a constant exposre to water or intermittent exposure to methanol. Any advice here is appreciated.
James mounted the pump under my bed and the solonoids next to the pump. The other thing in that picture is an electric ball valve that I have a switch for in the cab that dumps fuel into the main tank from the auxillary tank you can see in the picture above
The intake was removed, drilled and tapped for the injectors.
The kit also adds a port to monitor the boost.
I already have an EGT probe that was added when I did the delete kit and it is mounted in the block off plate above where cylinder 6 is in the manifold. I could have used this probe with the kit, but wanted to have a comparison of what my programmer reports the EGT's to be and what the temp is at the neck of the manifold above where it enters the turbo.
