![]() What is HFI? Hydrogen Fuel Injection Hydrogen Fuel Injection (HFI) is just a cool, high performance sounding name for the technology that has become very popular since about January of 2008. The more common names are HHO gas, Browns Gas, Hydroxy, Oxy-Hydrogen, Kleins Gas, HOH, Hydrogen Gas generator, etc. Just do a search on You-tube for any of the above names and you will see hundreds, if not thousands of videos of people producing hydrogen from water with a 12 volt battery. There are videos of people running lawn mowers and other small engines on water. Well, they are running them on hydrogen and oxygen produced from water through electrolysis. HFI refers to a hydrogen gas generator installed on a car with fuel injection. Cars 1996 or newer are equipped with EFI, or Efficient Fuel Injection. The cars onboard computer controls the amount of fuel being injected into engine. When you install a hydrogen gas generator of a car, the hydrogen and oxygen it produces goes into the engine through the air intake, along with the normal air flowing in through the air breather. The addition of the pure hydrogen gas and the pure oxygen increases the efficiency of the engine by causing the gas to burn more completely inside the chamber. This increased efficiency increases horse power, torque and most importantly, if increases the miles per gallon you get. The first place I noticed the term Hydrogen Fuel Injection was when Ronn Motor Company releasing information about their new HFI Sports Car, the Scorpion. The Scorpion has 450 horse power and gets 40 miles per gallon. When launched the Scorpion will go from 0-to-60 in just 3.5 seconds. I installed a hydrogen gas generator on my wifes mini-van. She likes telling everybody that her van is equipped with the new Green, environmentally friendly, high tech Hydrogen Fuel Injection that her husband built and installed one weekend. It sure does wonders for my ego! But, if you install a hydrogen generator on your car there are a few things you need to know to do it right. The most important is to either put an extender on the oxygen sensor, or install and EFIE (Efficient Fuel Injector Enhancer) to allow the cars computer to adjust the fuel mixture taking into consideration the addition of the hydrogen and oxygen from the hydrogen generator. What I did was add an EFIE that I ordered online. If you are good with electronics, you can get the plans online and make one, but it was much easier to just order one for under $50. I hope this article helps you to learn enough to make the decision to convert your car to a Hydrogen Hybrid. |
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