I was considering putting methanol injection in my cobalt but after doing some research I found that it might not be a good idea to use it on cars that have intercoolers. The theory behind this is that the charged air coming from the intercooler is already cooled to the point that all the methanol won't evaporate before entering the intake, which results in liquid in your intake.

Has anyone tried methanol in their LNF yet?

Even if all the methanol doesn't evaporate, how much liquid can really make it into the intake? it can't be large amounts. If anything it might just be a good way to clean the carbon off your pistons, valves and cylinders.

Opinions? Facts (would be more helpful)?

 

call Fred over at SMG motoring, hes done it and sells/ installs the snow performance kits

great guy

 

That's where this idea is coming from actually. I sent him an email already but haven't gotten a response yet. I saw your car on the page too.

 

i have heard of people running meth on cars with a intercooler and there cars havent broke down or anything... but hopefully someone can come in hear and help out with this who has experience with this.

i have a question about meth dont wanna start a new thread for a simple question. someone told me u can only run meth on a FI car is this true??

 

ill be over there tomorow morning, ill make sure he gets back to you

 

Ok thanks alot. I plan on having him tune my car no matter what. He sent me over a dyno sheet and i was impressed. Great value! Let him know I look forward to meeting him.

 

for sure man

 

I don't think you can ONLY run meth on FI cars but I know its alot more effective. Maybe Glenn can get some info from Fred at SMG on this.

 

You can run Meth on anything. I was looking into it when i was thinking about building a high compression motor for my Z. You just have to tune for it. the amount of Meth injected will be varied, so no liquid will get into the engine.

 

My car holds solid 21lbs of boost I think that when meth enters the piping it's just gonna get sucked up into the engine I think meth will work

 

Meth should work, if you have the timing to blow up the meth/gas mixture.

I think, meth would yield gains, but not as much as say a largre turbo would...that is the real bottle neck on these cars

 

Injectors ( injection window ) are the real problem we need more fuel up top so we can rev higher safely. Once we get over that hurdle there will be 500+ whp LNF out there until then we are stuck at about 400 whp max.

 

i think meth would be benificiary (sp) to our cars even with the small turbo

 

put it on there. bring me the car. watch your eyes light up

 

What kind of power do you think is possible with meth on these cars with the stock turbo?

 

You teh evil

 

Water/meth is good an ANY FI application. esp ones with small turbo's spinning their ***** off and out of the efficiency zone.

It also helps with the injection window issue, as it's adding a few % of the fuel load upstream where is can be thoroughy atomized.
We used it on Sky888's car to help make 373whp at 20psi.

Bottom line: YES you should stick water/meth on your car. Keep the tank full. Get a progressive controller as well.
It makes LNF's happy!

 

Fred from SMG seems to think its a good idea too. I'm gonna try to get into his shop on Saturday the 7th for the kit and a tune. Stay tuned see what kind of power I put to the ground.

 

^^^ what do you mean by progressive controller?

 

he teh greatest t00nxor and what kit should i get?

 

a devils own kit with a simple controller would work fine. mine is of the most basic setup and works fine.

 

will you help me install or is it easy?

 

Update: I got a quote from Fred at SMG of $1145 to buy the methanol injection kit, have it installed and tune my car which includes one hour of dyno time. The only problem is he's pretty backed up right now in the shop. But this gives me more time to wait for my tax return money and to be in a better financial situation when we're both ready to do it. I'll let you guys know what happens.

 

bryan made 308 hp and 338 wtq with out meth

 

I made the appointment. The cars going to the shop on April 4th. I can't wait to see what kind of numbers i put down.