Nitrous Oxide - Justin's 97 GTS Viper Nitrous Install

This sweet 97 GTS Viper was donated by Justin for us to design new products off of. As a result of his patience and trust I think we may have one of the best installs we have done. You tell me...



This install took well over 40 hours with two people working on it. By the pictures you will have no idea of the time..



*The system includes.

*Custom Nitrous Outlet dual plate system.

*Dual 15 lb bottles.

*Custom bottle mount.

*Dual Bottle Heaters.

*Wired for dual remote openers to be added later.

*Custom switch panel.

*Nitrous Outlet Dedicated fuel system.

*Big show purge system with exit out of scoop.

*Trick V and P gauges.


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Once the car was droped off the first thing we did was rip it apart and design our plates. These pictures are during mock up of the first article.

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Removing the ashtray area to design a custom switch panel.

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While we were at it we went ahead and started taking everything out for the install.

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Now that we have the plate mock up done and the console taken apart for the switch panel we can start mounting the bottles while we are finishing up the plates.

Justin wanted to be able to remove the entire rear part of the system and have availability to his trunk area in a matter of a minute. To accomplish this we made a card board pattern of the bottle mount we wanted. We then traced it onto a sheet of plywood and cut the plywood to fit.

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Time to Carpet the board.

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Went ahead and mounted the Nitrous Outlet dedicated fuel system.

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Stay tuned for more!!!!

Thats sick... I want more pictures!

Cool, are you attaching mounting tabs to the left and right flat sections behind the wheel wells in the cargo area? Or is the bottle mount plate just gona be a snug/pressfit mount?

very nice!!!

Moar Pics!!!!

Thanks guys... More pics to follow...

JoeyGC5- You are correct. Justin did not want the bottle bracket assembly to be bolted in. I explained to him that in the event the car was to wreck this entire assembly may be going out the back window. This is the way he wanted it though for a quick removal.

In later pics you will see the blow down tubes just bulk head to the board as well. Just looks like they are fuctional to pass tech. ( well Maybe) lol

Dave

looks good dave.

Can't wait to see the updated pictures!

Cool. Lotsa custom work going on there. Looks great so far guys.

Looks good to me.

wow thats alot of work,, im sorry but im just not digging those wheels.

After getting the dedicated mounted we decided to go ahead and test fit the pillar pod with the Trick Performance V & P Gauges. We had a concern that all the wires from the gauges would be to bulky and cause a fitment issue. During test fitment we discovered the wiring harness for the gauges had enough wire to route the wiring anywhere you need to go before making connections. The number of wires were no issue and you could not ask for anything better. We did run into a fitment issue with the pillar pod. The edge of the top of the dash was hitting on the face of the pillar pod and could not pull in far enough to bolt up. Simply taking a cutting wheel and cuting a slot in the face of the pod let the dash insert right back into place for a perfect looking fit.

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We have finished the dual plate design and ready to get them on the car. Notice the two plates and solenoids are all one unit. In these pictures you will see the Nitrous and Big show purge solenoid up top and the fuel solenoid is lower and sideways.

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After making sure they fit we went ahead and prewired the solenoids to a weather pack connector that will be mounted to the driverside inner fender. This way in the event Justin needs to remove the plates all he has to do is unplug the wiring and then simply plug them back in to reinstall.

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We went ahead and wired in the Nitrous Outlet dedicated fuel system. The dedicated has a ground wire that grounds the tank unfortintly we did not get this part in the pictures. The dedicated fuel system comes with all the fittings and 6an fuel hose needed for the install. We cut to fit the hose and installed the ends. The regulater used with the dedicated has an option of switching out the inner spring so that you can set the system up to be used with high or low fuel pressure. We used the high pressure spring since we are going to go with high pressure jetting. We added a Nitrous Express high pressure fuel pressure gauge. The gauge and the pressure switch for the Trick gauge share the same manafold connected to the fuel solenoid.

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Since everything upfront is finished up we went ahead and mounted the cold air back into place and set up the purge. There is a 3ft 3 an hose running from the exit port on the big show purge solenoid to the bottom of the air box. I drilled a hole through the bottom of the air box and used an assortment of fittings and hard line to have a dual exit purge out of the air scoop in the hood. This custom set up does not interfere with opening and closing the hood.

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We now have the custom switch panels built. We sent all but one to be annodized and etched for resale. We are going to go ahead and used the one we kept to finish the install and then switch the unfinished one with one of the finished units when they come back. Before installation we went ahead and prewired the switch panel for install. The wire harness is long enough to route through the console area under the dash on the drivers side. Once it is in place and routed a weather pack connector will be added to the harness for easy removal.

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In order to be able to run the harness for the switch panel we had to drill two holes in the body part of the console. There was already one hole there. We drilled a hole in the side of the ashtray slot and then one on the other side so the harness could feed through.

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Once the holes were drilled we routed the harness through and installed the console back in place.

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More to come......

Looks bad ass!

That looks SICK!! I love switch panel!

It would be really awesome if you could engrave into th metal the switch jobs

Ya'll craftmenship and attention to detail is second to none. Looks great guys!

That looks SICK!! I love switch panel!

It would be really awesome if you could engrave into th metal the switch jobs

The switch panel is the first article we kept to finish the install. The ones we made for resale are annodized black and laser marked just like our other switch panels..
Dave

Thank you guys for the complements.
Dave

Pretty damn cool. I remember when I did a stereo and dual nozzle nitrous kit in a 2001 GTS 3 years ago it was such a pain in the ass making everything. It still didn't lok half as good as your mockup/test kit.

We have now come to a point of running the wiring through out the car. We are mounting the relays and fuses for the system, dedicated, and big show purge in the access panel at the PCM.

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Next we wired the switch panel harness with weather pack connectors and installed a fuse box for the trick gauges and FJO wide band. The fuse panel is mounted right under the steering wheel behind the access panel. There is actually a perfect spot left wide open from the factory.

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The Trick gauges and switch panel wiring all comes into one harness under the dash at the kick panel. From this point we will split the wiring that goes to the back of the car and the wiring that goes to the access panel at the front of the car.

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We decided to drill a new hole through the kick panel to route the wiring through feeding the front of the car.

We suggest routing this wiring through a rubber gourmet and silicone the area for a weather tight seal when finished.

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Notice where we mounted the FJO wide band.

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Stay tuned.. More to come..

You guys are fucking amazing!!!

I seriously want to bring you my car and let you guys do the whole nitrous kit and install everything!

Bring it on down..

Awesome install guys, super clean!
Beautiful car too, should be a blast to drive w/ a little N2o :burn:

Looks Amazing Dave. You guys do awesome work. My Nitrous setup with your Custom plate for my Viper is almost done. I will send you guys pics when it is done as promised. Keep up the good work.

Cool I cant wait to see pics....



I should have all the rest of the pics for this install posted by the end of the week. It takes alot of time to resize and post them.
Dave

Got the rest of them pics? That thing looks amazing. It needs a Headunit, lol J/k.

Great attention to detail. Nice

Next we pulled the wiring through the kick panel to connect to the wiring in the front of the car.

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We connected to the PCM for Tach signal and TPS signal. I will disclose what wires we used in the final paragraph.

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We pulled battery hot from here.

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Once we had all the wiring finished up and the wideband wired in we installed the PCM Cover plate.

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After all the wiring upfront was finished up we moved to the back of the car for the final steps of wiring.

Since the battery is located behind the drivers rear wheel we got lucky. We pulled the battery hot to feed the relays in the back of the car and connected to a factory ground located on the cars tubular supprt behind the seats.

We pulled the hot wires through a factory gromet located on the rivers side.

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All the wiring to the back was put on weather pack connectors so that we could easily remove the entire bottle wet up with the accessories attached.

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Now that we have everything wired we ran the main feed line. Normally this is done during the process of mounting everything. However I had touched the main feed on a battery positive burning a hole in it. So we had to get a new main feed line and start over.



We found that the best way of running the main feed line was by running it under the intake manafold and then coming out at the firewall and running it over to the passenger side and drilling a hole in the firewall on the bottom left. We put a rubber gromet there and ran the main feed line through. Once through the firewall we Ran the feed line up under the passenger side kick panel and up through the rear plastic behind the passenger seat. (Cover the ends of the main feed line with masking tape to keep trash out)

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Looks freakin amazing Dave... maybe ill fly you and Chris down to miami and you guys can help me do my install...LOL

At this point we have the back of the car finished. We prewired the back for remote bottle openers so they can be added at a later date.



Notice we used Black Ano tuff fittings from Earls and -8 braided hose to build the blow down tubes.

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Numbers and vids will be required upon completion. :D

that is a good looking clean install. Congrats Justin, I know you are loving that thing. It has all finally paid off.