Hybrids – Water for Gas
Making your own Water for Gas Hybrid Conversion:
Supplementary Fuel for hybrid conversions
There are various forms of hybrid conversions around, some better than others. Let me start with a simple statement: this “water for gas” as a fuel additive is no joke. It is around us, kicking in all the benefits at whoever is using the system!
Yet you might legitimately ask – “If this water for gas system is such a genuine, powerful product – than why didn’t I hear about it?” or for those of you who already heard about it and thought – “Well, this is a myth, water and fuel (gasoline or diesel) do not mix and interact with each other. There is no way it can work”.
The truth
With all honesty you are right! No, I’m not kidding here – but bear with me a few moments and you’ll soon see why.
It is important to clarify some basic points before entering deep into the explanation on how this system works. This system is suitable for both gasoline and diesel engines and on all types of intake fuel systems; meaning both carburetor and fuel injection, normally aspirated and forced induction; turbo and supercharged engines.
Basics – How It Works
Water is used, as already stated, but is never mixed up with fuel in its own form. The chemistry of normal water is made up of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen. The two hydrogen atoms are linked by a single chemical bond to one oxygen atom. Its chemical formula in scientific terms is H2O. What we need from water is to extract the entrapped hydrogen – this is our secondary fuel. A quick note on hydrogen is that it is actually more powerful than our own normal fuel medium, being gas or diesel. This is used as a supplementary fuel in addition to our normal fuel in the engine’s combustion cycle, meaning that we are now using less of the engine’s original required fuel (gas or diesel).
Understanding Hydrogen (H) and it’s Implementation
Hydrogen is a gas, which is the lightest gas on earth and is colorless and odorless, can be highly explosive and has a clean burning cycle unlike normal fuels. Vast technological improvements have been made in both fuels, particularly on gas engines, when changing over from carburetors to fuel injection as a medium of fuel delivery. Fuel injection is constantly being developed so that the fuel is misted out as very fine droplets (known as the spray effect) when being mixed with the air intake, so now the mixed ingredients will burn more sufficiently and cleanly. This also reduces fuel consumption. With this hybrid conversion of “water for gas”, all that is needed is a simple electrical device, an electrolyte, powered from the vehicle’s battery. This separates water (H2O) from the hydrogen, leaving a hydrogen gas, known as HHO. This gas (HHO) consists of two parts Hydrogen and 1 part Oxygen. HHO is an extremely powerful gas that burns effectively and produces significant energy, greatly improving your fuel economy as much less fuel energy is needed for the same engine’s output. The real risk is that hydrogen is very unstable and is dangerous to store. This system is absolutely safe as there is no hydrogen storage, it is actually created instantly on demand. With the vehicle parked or stored there is no further risk of explosion than any other ordinary fuel vehicle, including yours before the conversion as your only storage is the normal fuel and water. A better definition of all this is gathered nicely together, and can be found on the excellent source of Wikipedia – Internal Combustion Engines
No hydrogen storage tanks = No extra risks
Hydrogen vehicles which depended on hydrogen storage and used hydrogen fuel as their only source of energy were in bad light throughout the media coverage because of certain accidents. BMW is officially introducing their biggest luxury model, the 7-Series as a hybrid vehicle using hydrogen. Well, I think anybody can relate to how serious these manufacturers are, so I trust you to make your own decision and I have a question for you: “Does this system work or not?”
In-Depth Review
As we have already seen above, the water for gas system works wonders in fuel consumption, effectively giving you “gas for free”, so to speak. It even gets better than that too!
The engine is producing much less carbon deposits which are formed when burning traditional fuels. This is because of two reasons. The first one should be obvious – less ‘traditional fuel’ is being burnt during the engine cycles. The second effect which might be less obvious, but is not less effective is that hydrogen, when burnt produces water vapor (steam). This will clean up the engine internals, like exhaust chambers and valves considerably well, acting like a steam power wash during the engine cycles! How cool is that?
This reduces wear on such components like valve stems and valve guides as any tiny, loose flaky deposits of carbon can grind up the components when the engine is running. This also reduces the carbon cocktail dramatically in the engine’s oil, thus reducing oil blackening. It is still advisable to change oil at the normal intervals though, as oils do break down through the varieties of engine temperatures, not to mention the metallic particles it carries, specially when the oil filter starts to loose it effectiveness. [My personal tip: Always change the oil filter with each oil change, even if it is not specified by the service manual. These oil filters aren't expensive, and surely you'll be playing safer. If the oil filter ever gets clogged, the engine oil bypasses the filter and is never filtered]
The engine’s original normal operating temperature also decreases to a lower normal operating temperature when the water hybrid system is installed. This happens because of the water vapor produced, meaning less wear and tear through friction – which is mostly generated by too much heat from the burning cycle and exhaust emissions. Proof to this is easily obtainable by parking a vehicle in long dry grass close to the hot catalytic converter. The grass will ignite, and probably your vehicle too, if not removed immediately!
In fact speaking of catalytic converters they must reach a high temperature to work effectively. That is why it is advisable to have your car for a good spin before entering the smog test as they’ll be ineffective if their ambient working temperature isn’t reached.
Using a high quality OBD II scanner can reveal some of these hostile temperatures the engine is working in through various sensors throughout the engine. Engine runs smoother as there is less excessive heat build-up and much fewer carbon deposits.
Some drivers even tend to notice a slight boost in power and that the engine seems to run more effortlessly when the water for gas is active.
Luckily for you newbies it has recently been tested on an extensive variety of vehicles and machinery due to the constant high rises in fuel and the bad economic situation. It’s been tested on small cars with four cylinder engines, bigger engines likes straight sixes and V8s, SUVs, trucks and monster tucks and industrial monsters – all with a triple positive effect, mainly:
- Less fuel consumption
- More pulling energy, and
- Smoother engine (even under load)
The only thing you must consider if doing this installation yourself is that if your engine is electronically controlled through an ECM (Electronically Controlled Module) through the OBD II interface, you will need some parameter modifications to the Obd Software. In this situation you might only see a reduction in fuel consumption for a few days, then it might go back to its previous fuel consumption. This is quite normal as the OBD II system is designed to compensate for lean fuel, as you are now effectively using much less fuel.
- The good news is that you OBD II software and hardware are working well.
- The bad news is that the engine will need some programming parameter modifications, than you will start seeing the real benefits.
Any well established garage in modern vehicles should be able to do this tuning for you.
Other benefits are that you are entitled to a tax reduction in the United States through the IRS, as you are contributing to less pollution and less fuel energy wastage. However this is a slightly tricky business for anyone who doesn’t have the necessary information and guidance.
With the constant rise in new vehicle’s prices, which is irrespective to the economy, people are keeping onto their vehicles longer. The cars are still as expensive as when the economy was not this bad, and the bad news is that these brand new models keep on rising in value. The same cars loose their original showroom value as the vehicle is registered to a new owner – which is great if you are the one buying a nearly new bargain and bad news if you are the owner (seller) of a new vehicle.
While nearly everyone, sometime in their life will end up either buying a brand new or nearly brand new vehicle, modern engines if serviced accordingly and taken good care of, can easily top the 100,000 miles and more.
So keeping a vehicle in good order and hanging on to it as long as possible should not penalize you on fuel consumption, as there is now a proven and tested hybrid conversion solution that brings your vehicle much greener and fuel efficient than ever before.
You will also be contributing positively to the environment, so move positively forward now by building your own system, or simply have one built and installed professionally for you. You don’t necessarily have to invest in a new hybrid vehicle to be an environmental leader anymore.
You can start taking action now by viewing this page on the hybrid engine conversion and getting the required information to get started. When you start witnessing the things mentioned above yourself, you’ll never look back. This system can be easily transferred from one vehicle to another, without any problems from the previously installed engine, should you decide to part with your vehicle.
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