A little help with NOS
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A little help with NOS This will be my 1st nitrous setup. I'm installing it in my 99 C5-a4 stock. I'm planning on 100 to 150 dry shot, modifying my throttle body (75mm to 80mm),headers, cutouts, and power pulleys. Maybe a 2500 stall later. With the nitrous I planned on using a window switch,activation switch, and a bottle heater. Do the switches work together or cancel eachother out? I dont see the point in a purge system. I'm not going to the track every weekend just racing once in a while. If I'm forgetting anything I'd like to know.
Originally Posted by 19vette99
This will be my 1st nitrous setup. I'm installing it in my 99 C5-a4 stock. I'm planning on 100 to 150 dry shot, modifying my throttle body (75mm to 80mm),headers, cutouts, and power pulleys. Maybe a 2500 stall later. With the nitrous I planned on using a window switch,activation switch, and a bottle heater. Do the switches work together or cancel eachother out? I dont see the point in a purge system. I'm not going to the track every weekend just racing once in a while. If I'm forgetting anything I'd like to know.
Window switch...seperate...
activation switch....seperate...
bottle heater...seperate...
The purge is to in a way, charge the line or pressurize it with n20, so that you get a direct and quick hit, as soon as your window switch allows it to come on.
Thats all. Just take your time.
I'd recommend wet but, since your not looking for MORE power, you'd probably be alright.
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Originally Posted by V-seriesTech
Window switch...seperate...
activation switch....seperate...
bottle heater...seperate...
The purge is to in a way, charge the line or pressurize it with n20, so that you get a direct and quick hit, as soon as your window switch allows it to come on.
Thats all. Just take your time.
I'd recommend wet but, since your not looking for MORE power, you'd probably be alright.
activation switch....seperate...
bottle heater...seperate...
The purge is to in a way, charge the line or pressurize it with n20, so that you get a direct and quick hit, as soon as your window switch allows it to come on.
Thats all. Just take your time.
I'd recommend wet but, since your not looking for MORE power, you'd probably be alright.
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nos kit i would not take the time to put a dry kit on if your going to do a window switch put a wet on the they make way more power i have had a wet kit on my car for over a year now with no window switch or an on switch it started out as a quick it so we could just take it off in a hurry and it still on there i have like a 120 shot and the timing backed down to i think 16-17 and have run lots or nitros through it with out any problems the 120 shot put over 150 to the tires and it safe as all can be on 93 a purge is good if you have the bottle to hot or you just put a new bottle in when ever you put a new bottle in and open it up and try and spray it there is a lag and then it will hit real hard and shock the tires and you will start spinning i just purge mine through the motor at 4000rpm and it also good if you get the bottle to hot you can let the pressure out of the bottle if it get to hot
hope this helps an anyway for you nitrous is fun you just have to spend the time to set it up safe
thanks
kyle Sonmor
hope this helps an anyway for you nitrous is fun you just have to spend the time to set it up safe
thanks
kyle Sonmor
Last edited by kyle`s 02 vette; Feb 24, 2006 at 02:42 PM.
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^^^I could barely make that out since it is just one huge run-on sentence.
I use a 150 wet shot on my Vette. It's bone stock with a VaraRam intake on it. I haven't changed the timing or anything. All I did was get TR-6 plugs and went to town. The Activation switch and window switch are completely separate. The window switch just controls where the nitrous starts and ends. The activation switch actually turns the system on.
I use a 150 wet shot on my Vette. It's bone stock with a VaraRam intake on it. I haven't changed the timing or anything. All I did was get TR-6 plugs and went to town. The Activation switch and window switch are completely separate. The window switch just controls where the nitrous starts and ends. The activation switch actually turns the system on.
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Originally Posted by kyle`s 02 vette
i would not take the time to put a dry kit on if your going to do a window switch put a wet on the they make way more power i have had a wet kit on my car for over a year now with no window switch or an on switch it started out as a quick it so we could just take it off in a hurry and it still on there i have like a 120 shot and the timing backed down to i think 16-17 and have run lots or nitros through it with out any problems the 120 shot put over 150 to the tires and it safe as all can be on 93 a purge is good if you have the bottle to hot or you just put a new bottle in when ever you put a new bottle in and open it up and try and spray it there is a lag and then it will hit real hard and shock the tires and you will start spinning i just purge mine through the motor at 4000rpm and it also good if you get the bottle to hot you can let the pressure out of the bottle if it get to hot
hope this helps an anyway for you nitrous is fun you just have to spend the time to set it up safe
thanks
kyle Sonmor
hope this helps an anyway for you nitrous is fun you just have to spend the time to set it up safe
thanks
kyle Sonmor
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From: Maypearl, TX
Originally Posted by 19vette99
I want to know if the window & activaion switches work to gether or if I have to choose one or the other. I know I have to buy them seperate. As for purging the line I can do that with a burnout at 800psi it'll take less than a second. Using a dry shot I dont have to worry about blowing my intake. I know the odds are slim but the motor can survive a lean run over an intake explosion.
Not 100% sure, as I've only done a little bit of research on NOS, but I do believe that they're separate entities, but will work in conjunction w/each other to form a safer NOS application for your engine...someone correct me if that's incorrect.
You need both a window switch And activation switch as these cars are fly by wire throttle. They work in series as the the activation switch senses full voltage to activate nitrous at only wide open throttle and the window switch senses the rpm's to be In The Window to insure safe operation. Get a TNT Wet kit as it produces more torque. Use the relay in the Activation switch as some people bypass this and it ends up frying their electronics. 
Originally Posted by scrmnws6
How will the colder plugs affect the performance when not using nitrous at the track?
Originally Posted by HolyShiznit
Slight generalization, on my NX wet kit I gained 220ft/lb of torque on a 150 wet shot. So.....ya.
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I'm thinking of the gas myself.
I'm confussed on one thing,if bottles and nozzles are equal for both NX and TNT,how can one brand make more torque than another,the gas coming out of the bottle doesn't know which kit it is in,gas is gas,must be a difference in nozzles or hose sizes i'm assuming.I'm also assuming this is pure "hear-say" with no documented proof by someone not working for the company.
I'm real concerned that the stock fuel pump won't react in time,or keep up for that matter,on a dry system that is.
I'm confussed on one thing,if bottles and nozzles are equal for both NX and TNT,how can one brand make more torque than another,the gas coming out of the bottle doesn't know which kit it is in,gas is gas,must be a difference in nozzles or hose sizes i'm assuming.I'm also assuming this is pure "hear-say" with no documented proof by someone not working for the company.
I'm real concerned that the stock fuel pump won't react in time,or keep up for that matter,on a dry system that is.
^^^ I think the "underrated" part is translated as "bigger jet". People have said that a TNT "150" shot is more like an NX "175" shot. IE the TNT kits simply spit out more gas. At least that's what I have read in the nitrous section.
Originally Posted by Dave00C5
Not knocking NX which is good too but typically tnt makes more torque as the're underated.
You can make that torque with any kit,..it's all in the fuel jetting.
