RE: nitrous install

From: Ronald Wong (ron-wong@home.com)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 12:31:14 EDT


Hmmmm....maybe we should flow a little hydrogen with that...;-)
KKKAAAAAABBBOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Ron
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Steven T. Ekstrand
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 8:41 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: nitrous install

I said Nitrous was air in a sense. I never called nitrous fuel, I referred
to nitrous AND the added fuel. ????
But it has volume which replaces the normal air that could otherwise get
through the TB AND in a simple nitrous system the additional fuel jet is
adjacent to the nitrous jet so fuel and nitrous are being sucked through a
TB which was designed to only flow air. Maybe the temp drop effect can
make up for that, I don't know.

On the setup I saw dyno'd with nitrous and fuel jets placed right about the
TB, the volume of fuel and nitrous released was amazing to see. My first
thought was that TB which was already too small was now really being
overtaxed. Maybe not? That was just my visual impression.

-STE

| Nitrous isn't 'fuel', it's 'AIR'. No carbons or hydrogens. Think about
| it: one nitrogen and two oxygens. It like a super charger in that it
| supplies more air burnable air. Its up to your fuel system to match
| that with fuel for combustion. It should be upstream of the TB.
|
| Am I wrong here?
|
| Marty
|
|
| "Steven T. Ekstrand" wrote:
| >
| > | Most Nitrous installations recommend about 6 inches ahead of the TB.
| > | Purpose for this is to give the nitrous and fuel time to mix evenly
| > before
| > | hitting the intake & TB. That gives each cylinder an equal charge.
| >
| > This is the way I have seen it done everytime. It doesn't seem like
the
| > best way though to me. It would seem like you're substantially
reducing
| > the capacity of the TB by doing this. Instead of only flowing air, the
TB
| > now has to flow nitrous and the added fuel. I would think the
effective
| > CFM of the TB would be substantially reduced in terms of the air it
could
| > flow. Obviously, the whole point of nitrous is that it brings
additional
| > air into the combustion chamber, so maybe this isn't a big issue at
all???
| > I don't know.
| >
| > The simple carbuerated nitrous kits use a plate below the carb, why not
do
| > this with a TB setup as well??



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