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I did a fair amount of research when I put MI in my Gen1. IMO the pump is an interior rated product and placing it anywhere that there is a chance of moisture getting to it may lead to premature failure. I mounted mine in the boot along with the tank. The only thing I have under the hood is the solenoid that I have a "roof" over to help and I also sealed the metal joints. There are pictures in my thread over in Gen1.
On injectors, my same thread has some good information on flow rates, I went with a No. 3 after reviewing allot of data. Would think air flow has allot to do with the nozzle size and as you would be pushing more air through the Gen3 engine with the larger displacement and horsepower that your turbos can achieve a No. 4 may work better.
I recently got to put my car on a dyno after installing my meth injection about a year ago. For reference, my car is an F56 JCW onto which I’ve added the Dinan Elite tune, a catless downpipe from Mario at mQubbed Motorsport, an open box intake, Quicksilver exhaust, and AEM’s methanol injection kit, through which I am running Snow Performance 50/50 Boost Juice.
Hi all! Wanted to interject as I am about to go all in on this meth project myself.
I have an F56 JCW, and I work at Baron MINI in Kansas City. We have a customer who came in recently and said "make it as crazy as you can" without any budget cap. Among many other things, we're installing an AEM meth injection kit.
In doing some research, we discovered that it is not uncommon to convert the wiper fluid tank to be the reservoir for the methanol mix. As we discovered, wiper fluid is usually about 70/30 water and methanol, where as the solution recommended for this purpose is about 50/50, which will work fine as a windshield washer fluid as well.
The technician working on the car removed the fluid line fitting from the provided AEM tank, and threaded it into the very bottom of the wiper fluid tank of the customer's R58. Because the AEM tank had a level warning sensor, it was unhappy because it was disconnected and not used in the wiper tank. By splicing together the wires for the sensor, it was happy, thinking the tank always has fluid in it, and we can now rely on the car's built in wiper fluid warning light as a level sensor for the methanol.
With this idea, there is no external tank to mount, no long lines to run, and no lost trunk space. This is when I got excited and ordered my kit.
For the F56, the ideal place to mount the injector nozzle is just after the intercooler, at the bottom of the boost pipe that runs up to the throttle body. This gives the mixture plenty of time to atomize before it reaches the sensors.
I'll be using a sandwich bung that I found at the link below to drill into the factory rubber boost pipe.
Hope this is helpful! I'll post updates when I get to work on my car. Should be pretty soon.
Hi, I would like to follow your methanol water installation, you have some photos on how to place the pump and how to modify the washer tank, thank you for your availability
08-29-2018, 04:33 PM
