Thanks for the note and reminder Dave. Yes, agreed.. i'll definitely have to do more research. I'll give the folks at Magnuson a call since I also use their SC on my other vehicle. I'm not willing to throw-in the towel on this just yet! :wink:
I've read both these arguments 1) not to spray meth/water due to potential teflon coating damage OR 2) it will aid in sealing with the side effect of cooling the compressor itself. That's an excellent link btw.
Perhaps i'll have to go back to my first idea of having this be triggered by AITs... or just turn the system on under prolonged heavy driving conditions. I'll need an AIT sensor at the very least.
Meth/Water effectively boost octane and cools intake charged air. Evidently both mixed together promotes the best adhesion, cooling, and atomization qualities. I think of it like running 91 (or race fuel for that matter) in your Honda DX Civic which was designed to operate at 87. It wasn't tuned to take advantage of the higher detonation thresholds of 91 so the timing and fuel map will be the same as if you ran 87. In other words.. it won't hurt to run higher octane in most cases on a car that wasn't tuned for it.
CT tuned it so it can ship out of the box and address nearly all driving conditions safely. There are hundreds of sold units out there w/o any problems so they've done their job well. However, i'm convinced heat soak is still an issue and needs to be addressed for full time optimum performance under hard driving conditions which only a fraction of CTSC owners ever subject their cars to i'm sure. It's interesting to note that they had the option to use a 2.3L unit which would spin slower, run cooler AITs, at the expense of higher parasitic drag BUT something like could not get it to pass emissions and/or could not use their original fueling solution. I'd be interested to know if they couldn't get it to pass emissions due to the 1.7L CARB approved fueling provisions being inadequate or because they didn't want to spend money to recertify an AEM EMS with CARB. Shad seemed to think the 1.6Lysholm/1.7Autorotor seems to address most NSX owners needs. I agree definitely! I just don't know yet if i'm like "most" NSX owners yet.
I believe the problem with 100% water is the atomization qualities of H2O isn't quite as good as when mixed with meth. With just one jet spraying i'd be afraid to run into single cylinder detonation with 100% water. It's a really good suggestion though since to address heat soak all one needs to do is cool the charge temps. I think the best setup would be a direct water injection setup where it only sprays at the higher rpms but with 6 injectors the tuning complexity increases exponentially (I think SAAB did this in the past). Anyway, at that point I might as well go AEM and all the CARB certs CT did is thrown out the window 
