Water injection and boost control

After checking Sloppy's youtube channel again after a (long) while I kinda liked what he did with his boost controller mounting. Got me to this idea:

No bracket to build! For luck Thorsten had two fittings the right size in his "various shit" box.

Those who know me and my way of tuning know that I SWEAR on water injection (by now). I still feel bad about telling Daniel of the Green Monster Team back then that "water doesn't burn and WDF it should do in a combustion chamber."
Took me a while to understand, that methanol without oxygen isn't burning either. Well.. actually it didn't cross my mind that using methanol as a cooling agent isn't the smartest idea either until we had bad bearings etc.
Now that I am limited on injector flow (you know ... money) I very much prefer water instead of methanol as internal cooling agent.

 So - I bought one of those Water / Methanol injection systems (cheaper than one high flow methanol injector).
To get an idea what I am dealing with, I did some rough flow tests today.
The pump puts out about 300 ml in 10 sec unrestricted. The good news is: It does pretty much the same with nozzles.
The bad news is - I wanted a little more. But this better than nothing and should be sufficient to start out with.

I also got the aluminum shielding tubes for the driveshaft today. Now I only need to find that old transmission shaft coupler again and we are golden!!!

Just a few pics...

We are still waiting for our turbo (shielding) parts.
Meanwhile time to clean up some more and fight rust...

Moving on...

We are in the new shop.
After installing lights, set up some storage shelves and putting on the parts that were finished, we could take some more measurements and get new parts designed and laser cut.
Kai Uwe couldn't stand my "Ikea motor mounts" so he designed some new ones.
I keep struggling to find time as my phone is an always ringing nightmare. It's nice when people spending your total budget just on their winter work asking you for help - but damn - it just mounts the pressure to get your own stuff done.

We still have to get the turbo and engine shielding done, as well as the last finish for the cockpit.
The trip to the shop (wind) damaged the old fenders a little bit, so we gotta get to fix those, too.
Kai Uwe is also doing some new alternator mounts. The original LQ4 mounts didn't fit the fuel pump...

Oh well - at least things are happening again.

In the winter shop!

Today the tractor was moved to the other shop in East Frisa, so we have a dry spot to get it all done!

Moving!

We're moving shop for the winter...
After a busy fall at my regular job (gotta pay for this ...) and spending some time with my other hobby (updating my home cinema to Dobly Atmos and 4k HDR) it's now time for a fortnights vacation with my GF.  After that we'll move the tractor to a new workshop closer to home and try to get it done for the new season!

More machine work!

Thanks a lot to the Green Monster Team and Dirk - now we can FINALLY move on!

... I just can't believe it!

Finally the machine work is getting done!!!