med oxygen

[drew ss]

ok i was talking shite the other day and a mate mentioned about injecting pure oxygen into the cylinders just like nos as nos is somethin like 30 percent oxygen and the rest ? so how would u go safely injecting some how 100% pure oxygen into the engine without it blowing up in seconds just a crazy thought...dont worry im not goin to try it

[nitrosman1]

i doubt anyone will try it as noz is a safer and more efficient way of getting more oxygen into an engine

[SimonV8ster]

And NOS is better as it runs cooler doesn't it ?

[anonymous-user]

nos can be wet-mixed with fuel before injection so enters the cylinder in liquid form. in THEORY if you hook up a dry spray of oxygen to your intake pipe you will get a higher oxygen content in the air and as long as the ECU can compensate to stop it running lean it would work fine.
expencive mind you...

[ARAF]

The theory is good, but I wouldn't want to play with it. Liquid O2 is under very high pressure, and is highly explosive under atmospheric conditions.

Oh, and forget tunnel runs. O2 is banned from many. I don't know how true, but I have heard (in the days before internet lies) that if an oxygen cylinder ruptured in the Darford Tunnel, it would punch through to the riverbed. Not something that I'd like to have nestled behind the rear seats of a car.

[gsd2000]

I think, i do say think, that pure oxygen does NOT like oil, causes it to go bang.

[granada203028]

Pure oxygen is of course the best oxidiser to use in an engine, then main problem is difficult storage. It either has to be compressed to great pressure or cooled to cryogenic temperatures to liquefy. Pure oxygen is readily available for medical and industrial processes and handing regulations are not super onerous.

Nitrous oxide does liquefy at sensible pressures so is relatively easy to store. We have it at work (and oxygen) as it is used in semiconductor manufacturing.

I have scrounged some Hydrogen Peroxide from work which is passed its use by date, maybe I can put this through my engine?

[ARAF]

granada203028 said:

I have scrounged some Hydrogen Peroxide from work which is passed its use by date, maybe I can put this through my engine?

Will it bleach your exhaust pipe?