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Hydrogen Peroxide as a booster?

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Thanks to the cylinder's temperature, the water will probably already be steam by the time combustion occurs. At this point, it has absorbed as much heat as it can from the cylinder and will allow combustion to continue unscathed.
Bonus, combustion is largely the same on both types of engines. If a liquid burns in one way in a 4-stroke engine, it's gonna burn the same way in a 2-stroke, not to mention water/methanol injection kits are available for 2-strokes as well.
 
For anyone still wondering, I finally experimented with the peroxide minutes ago. The results were disastrous.
As soon as I injected the peroxide, the engine stopped, and went into some type of extremely severe hydrolock. If I covered the exhaust, the piston wouldn't move at all. I removed the plug and cranked the engine upside down, injected a small squirt of nitro fuel down the cylinder, and tried again. The hydrolock was gone, but the engine refused to start.
Fast forward 10 minutes, the engine started giving sputters of life. After that I took it inside and sprayed WD-40 down any hole I could find, including cylinder, until it was dripping. I blew down the air intake (using a tube) to the fuel on the line back to the tank. I waited 20 seconds, cranked it upside down, then I sprayed some more into the carb and then left it rest in a towel so the WD can flush out any foul liquid left. The hydrolock was seemingly gone, and the compression was apparently not lost. I almost destroyed an engine.

I apologize to mrbones for arguing with him on a subject I'm not perfected in, and also apologize to Certified Mike since my project came out with nothing useful. I definitely have a huge lot to learn.

EDIT: I will also post a video of the moment of injection, although there isn't much to see except an engine going into hydrolock mid-operation.
 
For anyone still wondering, I finally experimented with the peroxide minutes ago. The results were disastrous.
As soon as I injected the peroxide, the engine stopped, and went into some type of extremely severe hydrolock. If I covered the exhaust, the piston wouldn't move at all. I removed the plug and cranked the engine upside down, injected a small squirt of nitro fuel down the cylinder, and tried again. The hydrolock was gone, but the engine refused to start.
Fast forward 10 minutes, the engine started giving sputters of life. After that I took it inside and sprayed WD-40 down any hole I could find, including cylinder, until it was dripping. I blew down the air intake (using a tube) to the fuel on the line back to the tank. I waited 20 seconds, cranked it upside down, then I sprayed some more into the carb and then left it rest in a towel so the WD can flush out any foul liquid left. The hydrolock was seemingly gone, and the compression was apparently not lost. I almost destroyed an engine.

I apologize to mrbones for arguing with him on a subject I'm not perfected in, and also apologize to Certified Mike since my project came out with nothing useful. I definitely have a huge lot to learn.

EDIT: I will also post a video of the moment of injection, although there isn't much to see except an engine going into hydrolock mid-operation.
You don't need to apologize. Many times when we don't agree on something, we hash it out and learn something. There has been many times in my life that I learned that I didn't know as much as I thought I did. So forget it. At least you had the ambition to try to make something happen with it, which is more than I did.
 
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