Even if this were true and you could find a suitable source for air capacity, wouldn't tat upset the A/F ratio as soon as you introduced the air to the system? My thinking is if you simply added air, you'd either (A) cause the engine to go dead lean and die due to not enough fuel, or (B) it would feed the flame, much like adding oyxgen to a cutting torch in which case you KILL the engine for good. Nitrous Oxide injection works by carrying it's own extra oyxgen molucule, allowing the engine to burn more gas. Engines produce power by burning more fuel, period. But the one thing you cannot sidestep is the fact that the engine must operate at the correct air/fuel ratio. So adding gas only mkaes it rich, while adding oxygen makes it lean. That's why you need to find a way to supply more gas. Carburated nitrous engines do this by adding another fuel pump, and bypassing the carb by metering it directly into the intake, metered by an solenoid. Mild "dry" nitrous setups on EFI motors siply allow the engine's computer to read the engine's lean condition and add the gas to compensate. Either way, you need to add OXYGEN to the system, not just compressed air for it to work, and even then you won't get the extra oxygen molecule that Nitrous Oxide carries, so all this work would certainly result in less power, if it worked at all.
Ok, just to add to the mass confusion, on the "metering the air part", if you need 178 gal tank to provide the correct volume, the only way to meter it at that rate would be attach a 1700 gal tank and regulate it down to provide the constant source required. No way to regulate the given amount if that is all you have in the source to begin with.
Just like an air compressor in the garage, BIG tank, you use just a bit of it constantly in an air tool.
So, we've determined that this is pretty much a no-go. But, you know, Edison's first bulb didn't work. It does take a certain type of person to just keep at it til it works, no matter how "out there" it sounds. Sometimes you do need to find out early and save yourself the grief.
It's the reason I asked.. I just lay in bed and think up stuff before I go to sleep, years of troubleshooting computers has made it so that's the only way I can wind down at night.
So it doesn't work ,because I'm don't know enough about the physics of air compression and just how much had to flow from a system like a super/turbocharger.
I learned a lot from this thread.. and I appreciate everyone who helped
That's funny. When I can't sleep, I build a drag car in my mind to wind down. It's a blown Opel GT with a 514ci Ford, Lenco two speed, burning alchohol. I figure the chassis tube by tube until I fall asleep on those days I'd like to choke some to death from the days events...
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