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Old 3rd July 2005 | 18:50
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barit1
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Not so silly, Confabulous!

That's part of the reason for water injection. It does two things for you:

o Evaporative cooling, plus
o More mass flow

Now all you have to worry about is corrosion, water pump failure, freezing, ...
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