I work in a shop and was cleaning up our break room before all the big bosses come in this week. While I was cleaning I found an old Edelbrock Vara-Jection water injection kit on a shelf. I asked my buddy pete (been there 22 years) about it and he told that things been sitting up there since he started there.

I opened it up and it's never been touched! Its all new in the box. I was reading the manual for it and it uses an adjustable control box to increase or decrease the amount of water (or meth) by reading rpm and a boost/vacuum source. I'm not sure if it even works but I'm going to test it out and was thinking about putting it in my car if it does. Judging from the application list in the manual this kit has to be from the early to mid 70's!

I'm not to sure about putting 30+ year old tech in my Talon but if everything works when I test it why not? I'll post some pics once I get my camera back but I thought this was cool and wanted to share.

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AEM Performance Electronics Water Methanol Injection System Evaluation By Mike Kojima Long ago in the days well before MotoIQ in the early 80’s, as a teenager, I started tinkering with water injection. Being somewhat of a mad scientist, I had equipped the first engine I had ever built, a small block Ford with domed high compression pistons which had a compression ratio of about 12:1, something that was impossible to run well with the 92 octane gas and mechanically controlled fuel and spark available at the time. I always had to concoct toxic and carcinogenic mixtures of gasoline, methanol, toluene and acetone to keep my car from detonating to death. Fortunately my friend’s dad was a technician at TRW and he was always bringing home 5 gallon drums of these chemicals that had expired use by dates for us to clean parts in and put in our gas tanks. Somehow I think I might end up paying for all of that soon but that’s another story. Somewhere I had read that the P51 Mustang fighter used water alcohol injection to give it more power under dog fighting conditions so I rigged up a water injection system using an old windshield washer pump and experimented with various mixtures of stuff from my friend’s ad hoc chemical supply house in the reservoir. I found that my crude system sorta worked, it suppressed detonation but had drivability issues and it was sort of lame to try to throw a switch to turn on your system while driving fast. Download Bios Toshiba Satellite L640 Series more.

Edelbrock's Vara Jection was the first electronically controlled water injection system that tried to match water volume to engine load. They came out in the late 70's early 80's when gas started to get crappy as a crutch to help those old high compression muscle cars survive on unleaded gas. Spearco had a crude hobbs switch boost activated system back then as well. Neither of these systems worked that well, probably because they had lame pee stream nozzles and used 15 psi windshield washer pumps. They were still better than my push button homemade system. Although I found this picture on the internet, I swear this sure looks like the unit on my car from the ground, my lame high schooler wiring and the light blue overspray all around. I wonder if one of my old photos somehow found its way on the net?

This sort of got solved when Edelbrock came out with a water injection controller the next year (I think I was still a teenager). It had RPM and vacuum sensors built into some sort of box that controlled the injection rate with crude spray nozzles. This system worked much better and I used this until I rebuilt my engine with a lower 10:1 compression ratio after tiring with messing around with this stuff.