This is my first proto, maybe there will be more later ...
Thank you to grandpa sunflower for his help and for the provision of his workshop and his tools.
Thanks to bob_isat for the implementation tips and the synthesis he has done on this process.
Thanks to Gaël for his feedback on this process, for this advice as well as for the reflections on the operation and optimization of the process.
Some will surely recognize the resemblance with kits sold in the trade.
If I made this choice of shape and size, it is not to have to weld on the muffler.
This kit is entirely made of stainless steel.
2 stainless steel was chosen for manufacturing.
Ferrietic and therefore magnetic stainless steel for the reactor and non-magnetic stainless steel for the bubbler and the diffuser.
To find these stainless, I went to the scrap dealers in the Toulouse region and I came out for 45eur tube, sheet and log of all kinds and different sections ...
Here is a small diagram of the system.
The bubbler is warmed by the LDR thanks to a modine solder around.
First of all here are the different parts after their manufacturing and machining which will constitute the different elements of the kit.
To know :
- the reactor
- the bubbler
- the diffuser
Now here are the parts soldering without any finishing.
I point out that stainless steel is not easy to weld when you have never welded this material. And this despite my experience in welding on common steel: Oxy-acetylene melting and solder; bow ; MIG pro etc. ...
The welds have been made with a handyman MIG post that unfortunately has no intensity adjustment at 5A ready.
Not easy to be on the waterproof !!!
And now after finishing the drémel with a small wire brush
The bubbler
the reactor
And the diffuser
Now place for editing.
Here is the pot with caesarean section that goes well to introduce the reactor.
Brush well around the cut.
The reactor will mount and tighten with stainless steel collars.
The tightness between the reactor and the pot is made with special mastic muffler.
The bubbler isolated on its support (made with the recovery) and the tank has constant level.
I bought the latter in an old vehicle exchange purse, she was riding on an old motorcycle carburetor.
The bubbler mount in the engine compartment with its water supply.
The latter is neither more nor less than an expansion tank of 205 gasoline.
The stopper of the water supply comes from a power steering jar it is necessary to remove the capsule which restricts the passage of air.
The stitching of the LDR for the bubbler.
Stitching with the valve is that of the bi-fuel heaters.
Now here is the diffuser mount before the intake manifold.
We can see behind the diffuser the turbine WITH.
This one makes a restriction which favors the venturi effect and the suction by the diffuser.
The white hose is a silicone hose that serves as suction bubbler. I think I will eventually install a small air filter.
The same hoses connect the bubbler to the reactor and the reactor to the diffuser.
They are insulated with plumbing sleeve
And a picture of the engine compartment of the ZX bi fuel and dope with water
Listing and prices:
- Stainless steel wire coil MIG = 21.9eur
- Stainless steel (tubes, sheets etc.) = 45eur
- 90 bicone bend X2 = 15.2eur
- Constant level tank = 15eur
- Stainless steel collar (hose) X14 = 21.6eur
- Tees male 20 / 27 X 2 = 10.92eur
- End piece d15mm F 20 / 27 X2 = 3.72eur
- Equal sleeve FF 20 / 27 X2 = 6.84eur
- Female plug 26 / 34 = 4.48eur
- Male plug 8 / 13 = 1.38eur
- Miscellaneous screws = 8.76eur
- Crystal tube 3cm = recup
- Corniere galva = recup
- Stainless steel collar (reactor) = recup
- colson necklace = recup
- Silicone hose = recup
- Insulating sleeve = rest of the bi-carb
TOTAL = 154.8eur
Knowing that there is enough to make another kit ...
The kit seems to work, the car has more recovery and better climbs the odds.
Ex: some mount or I was forced to be in 3 °, now it goes alone in 4 °.
I would give them up to conso by 1 months or 2.
I prefer to average conso on several full to be as accurate as possible ...