Is methenol injection worth the time and money? Will it cool the truck like they claim and add more hp and trq? Curious whos running it with what set up

 

You need head work to run Methanol. It causes too much cylinder pressure and will pop any stock head gasket with enough time and or abuse. Just a little H20 can be sprayed to cool egt's without head work for a while, but eventually it too will cause head gasket failure.

 

are you sure? on another thread I read no one has had head gasket problems with meth/h20.

if so, can you run a set of studs with the stock gasket?

 

bnold and BCSCUMMINS have both blown headgaskets while running water/meth. bnold had studs on a stock gasket and BCSCUMMINS was on stock head bolts and stock head gasket.

 

how much water/meth ratio? im curious because I just got a snow kit in the mail and I want to keep my gasket in there haha

 

my friend blew his with -20 ww fluid+ stock HG

I have a stage 3 snow and egt claims are 100%. however you will most likely only gain 40hp or so.

 

I gained 42rwhp on the dyno with my Snow Stage 2 (220psi pump).
No problems with stock head gasket but it wasn't as much of a gain in HP or EGT drop as I had hoped for.

I was informed 49/51 is as much methanol/water I should put through it.

Sort of wish I put that $500 towards my turbo fund instead now.

 

Yep I blew a HG running water meth and twins at around 60 psi...

Tests pulling a load have shown reduced EGTs of up to 250*!! Huge!!
The extra power is noticable even with only a 20% waser fluid mixture.

Wouldn't recommend Water/Meth for somebody that wants a huge seat o pants hit, mainly towards those that tow or have trouble keeping EGTs in check... With Smarty, TST, 150HP injectors maxed with the water/meth (50/50) I can't get over 1350*

 

what nozzles are you using?

 

One had 20% mix of meth and the other was 50%. One was at 60psi and the other was at 50psi.

 

I can tell you that water injection has really cooled my temps. I used to be at 1650-1700 on a street burnout, yesterday at the track I was only at 1550 at the end of the quarter. I only run straight water, too many people have told me not to run meth on a 12 valve that is timed pretty high.

 

so will my stock HG be ok since I am only hitting about 38 psi with the stock turbo?

 

I think strait water you should be ok and it will cool. I ran a 50/50 mix 3 weeks 50pis and w/m was more than the stock HG could bear.

 

40-50 HP is about it in a 2nd gen 24v. Does cool EGT's also....or at least slows rate of climb, depending on how your using it.

RJ

 

I have a snow stage III. I only used it for a few days before the controller took a nose dive on me though. I was at about 40-45 psi on a stock HG and bolts. It seemed to keep it pretty cool but cant tell you to much or dyno #'s(it took a crap the night before I went to the dyno) I ran 1/2 washer fluid and 1/2 water.