[K5Calamity]

Decarbonizing by water injection has been around since well before WWII, nothing new. Fathers just quit teaching their sons about it I suppose, sad really.

On a side note that's more aftermarket performance oriented, you can still buy water injection kits from places like JC Whitney to improve wide open throttle performance - by reducing detonation and pre-ignition on high hp/high compression carbed engines.

What's acually happening in this application is the water physically cools the valves, heads and pistons and helps reduce combustion chamber temps. Reduce temps of these parts enough and maybe it allows you to run higher compression ratio's with less fear of detonation.

Like everybody else says, don't use too much, too quick or you'll be bending rods, or busting holes through pistons due to hydaulic lock. It needs to be a metered amount and fine tuned to the application through trial and error, hopefully not to much error.

There are better ways to achieve higher performance. I just put this for gee-wiz info