Does the line have to be under the car?
06-24-2005, 06:45 PM
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Does the line have to be under the car? I'm getting ready to install my 5177 kit next week thats why I'm asking alot of questions. I wanted to know if I will get away with running it under the carpet and through the firewall near the batt. (c5), Or will a track tech notice and not let me run? I would be hidden very well and I have seen it in other vette's like this. Let me know?
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06-24-2005, 08:34 PM
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I have mine running through the passenger compartment and thru the firewall, track hasn't said anything, but I don't think they've noticed. They just check to make sure my blow down tube is securely fastened to my bottle and it actually goes thru the floorboard.
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anyone get away with no blow-down? or having one that dont really go through the floorboard, i dont wanna cut anything on the vette 
........ were is a good place to mount a 15lb bottle and where to put the blow-down tube?
........ were is a good place to mount a 15lb bottle and where to put the blow-down tube?
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you can for the first run. they ask you if you have nitrous tell them no but when you run a decent time they will call you to re-tech. If you don't you'll wait in line and they'll make you go tech or they won't let you run.
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Originally Posted by Insanekamel
anyone get away with no blow-down? or having one that dont really go through the floorboard, i dont wanna cut anything on the vette ........ were is a good place to mount a 15lb bottle and where to put the blow-down tube?
........ were is a good place to mount a 15lb bottle and where to put the blow-down tube?not in a vette you don't lol
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06-24-2005, 10:31 PM
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To this day I've never run a a blow down tube. I have one in the garage though. It'll probably stay there too. Some tracks won't let you run without one though. My last trip they made me pull the bottle out of the car before teching in...I put it right back after I tech'd in. 
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I ran my line through the passenger compartment. I also think I saw somebody quote the NHRA rulebook on this site and it did not state that the line had to be outside the car. I could be mistaken though.
I do not have the blowdown tube installed, but that is because I filled the bottle before remembering the blowdown tube. I know a 10lb bottle fits in the middle compartment, not sure about a 15lb bottle though. Remember to cover up the line when you snake it throught the grommet; you do not want to rip any of those wires up that are bundled together. I used a piece of rubber hose. Sliced it open down one side(the fitting was to big to slip through the hose). Capped the fitting with a vacuum cap that you find in auto parts stores. Slid the hose(rubber) around the hose(nitrous) and snaked it throught the grommet. Then you can pull the hose through without chaffing the wire. I am sure there are other ways, but this is what worked for me.
P.S. leave the rubber hose in the grommet to protect wires from the nitrous line. Or you could rap the line with tape,etc...
I do not have the blowdown tube installed, but that is because I filled the bottle before remembering the blowdown tube. I know a 10lb bottle fits in the middle compartment, not sure about a 15lb bottle though. Remember to cover up the line when you snake it throught the grommet; you do not want to rip any of those wires up that are bundled together. I used a piece of rubber hose. Sliced it open down one side(the fitting was to big to slip through the hose). Capped the fitting with a vacuum cap that you find in auto parts stores. Slid the hose(rubber) around the hose(nitrous) and snaked it throught the grommet. Then you can pull the hose through without chaffing the wire. I am sure there are other ways, but this is what worked for me.
P.S. leave the rubber hose in the grommet to protect wires from the nitrous line. Or you could rap the line with tape,etc...
06-25-2005, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ramairstyle00
not to hijack the thread but....
if you don't want your blowdown tube, i might take it off ya
if you don't want your blowdown tube, i might take it off ya
06-25-2005, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by unit213
To this day I've never run a a blow down tube. I have one in the garage though. It'll probably stay there too. Some tracks won't let you run without one though. My last trip they made me pull the bottle out of the car before teching in...I put it right back after I tech'd in.
