Thought I'd throw my two cents in on the notorious nitrous. Sorry to ring
in late in the thread, but there are a few items I'd like to share
concerning this stuff.
1) Nitrous by itself is not flammable:
N20 will only accelerate combustion under a tremendous amount of heat and
pressure, forcing the release of the oxygen molecule.. In this environment,
if there is ANYTHING capable of being oxidized, believe me, it will do it.
At ambient temps with no pressure, if the tank blows the burst disk and you
are near it, it will likely only hurt your ears from the noise, and you'll
be silly for a few minutes from the gas.
2) Sanely designed nitrous setups do not impose a huge amount of extra wear
on a well running and maintained engine:
You can believe that your cylinder pressures are going to really shoot
up, (that is after all what the idea of putting something like this into
operation right?).. and while there will be extra stress on the entire
driveline while flowing, take into consideration this wear only occurs while
"on the button". Most people think the base kit is all you need to do when
running nitrous, and it just is not. Of all items to know about nitrous,
one is the most imperative:
3) Rock solid fuel pressure regulation is the key to running a safe nitrous
setup:
Gotta keep the gasoline side of the nitrous setup solid and dependable.
This means (in my book) a second high flow rotor style fuel pump with a
bypass regulator that returns the extra fuel back to the tank. This setup
keeps the gas cool in the lines, and a bypass regulator reacts almost
instantly to delivery changes (like when you need to educate that pesky
Sonoma) and hit the button. No pressure drops just solid fuel delivery,
safely rich in this case, and your engine will love it. Just for safe
measure, I had a very good fuel pressure gauge on that circuit and it was
the most important gauge to me when competing
I ran this very setup in Modified Truck and Jeep bog, drove it there,
spanked em, drove her home. I did that while I was driving the beast to work
and back, and put 30000 miles on the Jeep in the process.
Unlike other forced induction options (supercharger or turbo), the effect of
flowing nitrous does not add heat to the intake charge, in fact is super
cools it.
One final item, having the bottle in your passenger compartment is
potentially dangerous for one reason only, if the burst disk does not
release a dangerous over pressure, you could get into serious trouble. If
you compromise the bottle like that, ouch. I'd rather run through hell with
gasoline underwear on. That is why, if you choose to do this, get a bottle
that is lined inside (takes care of the corrosion problem, and have the
bottle tested once a year at least by a competent welding supply shop, or
have the bottle x-rayed at a scuba dive shop.
This stuff can be a huge whop in the pants ride, and if you get your install
right with these basics, you wont kill your engine like so many other folks
say, you will just send your competition's ego straight to the vertical
file.
Did I mention that when I rebuilt my engine at 103000 that my crank only
needed to be polished not turned? I had NO ADVERSE WEAR WHATSOEVER on this
engine!
Have fun and go get those cheveys......
Bob Cash
Dekalb, Illinois
98 SLT 4X4 LSD 5.2L
00 Sport 4X4 Club Cab 4.7L "almost hemi"
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Frank Johnson
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:42 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: back in black
Awwwwww..... The smell of nitrous burning on a Friday night, i can never
get enough!!! hehehehe
Seriously though, this stuff is just to volatile to put inside any car.
Fireballs shooting out of the hood, and did everyone hear/see about the
guy's maxima that was totalled when the nitrous bottle blew up in the trunk?
It threw the trunk through the garage door.
Got nitrous? No thanks,
Frank WJ
>
>I finally got to take my truck out for the first time this year without
>something bad happening. As some of you know, My truck was hit right before
>new years. About a week and a half ago the truck was delivered to me at
>work, by the body shop, looking better than ever. Being a friday night I
>figured I could find some good races on the way home, so I grabbed a full
>nitrous bottle and hooked it up. About 3 blocks from work a Trans am pulls
>up and looks like he'll bite so I give the truck a little rev to let him
>know what's about to happen, He happily responds and we wait for the light.
>Perfect launch for both of us and we're dead even. This is about the time
>where my perfect night gets ruined. As the truck shifts into second I hear
>a
>"POP" and a fire ball runs up my windshield. @$%$% nitrous. Anyway I swore
>off nitrous. and it's time to look for some other form of forced induction.
>Incase anyone has tried to E-mail me directly and didn't get a response I
>changed me addy to nosdakota@flashcom.net
>Joe W.
>98 dakota 13.1
>
>
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