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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 11:03 AM
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Dropped my car off to my friends business, Antilag Racing, over the weekend to have a wet nitrous kit installed. I couldn't be happier with the way things turned out! It is much cleaner than I expected and without it being pointed out most won't even know it's there. All the solenoids are hidden in the wiper cowl. They also put in a 255 fuel pump for me as we'll and made a badass kevlar cover for the fuel pump trap door. i'll be spraying a 100 shot on my LT and once i swap my 5.3 in probably spray that as well.

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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 11:13 AM
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That's very tucked away! I'm going to have to do this to my car!
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 11:55 AM
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Real clean install...but why bother hiding the solenoids with a big *** bottle between the seats lol?
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 12:03 PM
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the bottle ended up going in the far back hatch area, rather than between the seats.
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 12:15 PM
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Hahaha it looks like he moved it to the trunk. It looks like a sneaky little system, pretty cool
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Old Oct 14, 2013 | 04:23 PM
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Sweet man!
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you might need to rotate the bottle...most bottles want the discharge facing down and slightly towards the rear of the vehicle to make sure the siphon tube is in the liquid nitrous
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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Chopstix
you might need to rotate the bottle...most bottles want the discharge facing down and slightly towards the rear of the vehicle to make sure the siphon tube is in the liquid nitrous
x2 you might get some surging problems with the bottle like that under hard acceleration.
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Lol the car doesn't accelerate very hard, but I see what you are both saying. They couldn't put on my blow down tube because the fittings didn't match the valve on the bottle, so I'll spin it around tonight. I guess I'll need a different valve for the bottle when I get it filled next time.
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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 03:50 PM
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I like the way they installed your solenoids looks nice and tidy, one question why did you install a fuelpump? did you need for the nitrious set-up?
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the siphon tube's pick up is in the bottom corner of the cylinder on the same line as the discharge...if the discharge is facing up you will have the pickup in the vapor portion of the bottle and not the liquid.

as far as the blow down issue, it looks like you need this fitting



http://www.nitrousoutlet.com/nitrous...sure-disc.html
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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 05:01 PM
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whats your other mods ?
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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Chopstix
the siphon tube's pick up is in the bottom corner of the cylinder on the same line as the discharge...if the discharge is facing up you will have the pickup in the vapor portion of the bottle and not the liquid. as far as the blow down issue, it looks like you need this fitting http://www.nitrousoutlet.com/nitrous...sure-disc.html
This is what I'm working with


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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Birdracing
I like the way they installed your solenoids looks nice and tidy, one question why did you install a fuelpump? did you need for the nitrious set-up?
i didn't need it, but i wanted to be safe and make sure the stock pump didn't die out and kill the motor.



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whats your other mods ?
headers, no cats, catback. other than that stock motor. plan to swap in the spring so this is more or less a learning experience so i don't blow the 5.3 as quick.
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Old Oct 15, 2013 | 06:44 PM
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What nitrious kit did you go with? I am thinking about installing a kit on my car, I am in the process of getting a tune ordering the tune tomorrow and I was going to get them to do a 75 to 100 shot tune for me. Did you change your spark plugs?
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yes i did change the plugs. i just pieced together a kit from parts here and there. once it was all said and done i wish i would have just bought a full kit though.
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Old Oct 16, 2013 | 04:59 PM
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you need this style....



Give the guys at nitrous outlet a call and tell them you need a female thread blow down fitting and they can get you fixed up
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get some dyno numbers !!!!!!!!!
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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 06:42 PM
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The car should run real hard on the juice??
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Old Oct 18, 2013 | 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by nitrous2fast
The car should run real hard on the juice??
Is that a question? Lol

It won't be anything special, bone stock motor. Maybe a high 13 if I'm lucky.
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