FOR SALE - VIX MOISTURE HUMIDIFIER AND GAS SAVER ACCESSORIES
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FOR SALE - VIX MOISTURE HUMIDIFIER AND GAS SAVER ACCESSORIES
Here's a collection of three different style VIX humidifier units. Three are two of the same brass units and two different aluminum units. Asking $35 for the lot plus postage.
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Re: FOR SALE - VIX MOISTURE HUMIDIFIER AND GAS SAVER ACCESSORIES
AKA water injectors. Those could prevent detonation on low octane fuel and reduce carbon deposits. One might be useful today for high altitude operation. Add Everclear as needed to prevent freezing.
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Re: FOR SALE - VIX MOISTURE HUMIDIFIER AND GAS SAVER ACCESSORIES
This confirms what I thought these are. I picked a NOS one up at a fundraiser auction (I paid $35 for one) and came to the conclusion that it hooked up to the radiator overflow to draw steam vapor into the intake. but stop water with the flapper valve. Am I close?
Craig.
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Re: FOR SALE - VIX MOISTURE HUMIDIFIER AND GAS SAVER ACCESSORIES
I believe that's how they worked. I can't read the material very well, but it mentions that the device is compatible with all radiator antifreezes, suggesting it uses the radiator as a vaporizer. I would not run one of these with any modern antifreeze, or with a dirty radiator, or with hard water. Alcohol would work fine. Some devices used an atomizer chamber where air was bubbled through water, or a small amount of water was fed via an orifice through a tube wrapped around the exhaust manifold. J.C. Whitney sold an atomizing device with an electrically controlled metering valve as late as 1980.