Nitrous mishaps
a friend with a m6 decided to spray out of the hole but let the clutch out first which bogged the motor then hit the switch=BOOM !one less ls1 motor! luckily no mishaps for me ,YET!with all the safety features,ESPECIALLY A WINDOW SWITCH,it would probably still be alive and kicking.
You will notice that almost 99.9 percent of Nitrous Mishaps are from user error.
Out of all the cars I have tuned on the dyno I have hurt two.Both were shop cars and we knew we were pushing the car to the limit.
Follow the guid lines set and use the saftey products on the market and you will have tons of fun.Most important buy a quality system.
Dave
Out of all the cars I have tuned on the dyno I have hurt two.Both were shop cars and we knew we were pushing the car to the limit.
Follow the guid lines set and use the saftey products on the market and you will have tons of fun.Most important buy a quality system.
Dave
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FormerVendor
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Had a fuel solenoid not open due to a swelled piston. Kind of a crazy thing, I was at the track with my T/A when it was bone stock w/ a 150hp wet NX system. Car went from 9.0's to 7.60's on the nitrous. Plugs looked good so we didn't think anything was wrong. On the last pass I decided to spray it at the launch, well it launched very hard (I was on slicks) and about the time I was going to hit 2nd gear it went boom. When we pulled the motor apart I found that I had 100's of pieces of #7 piston in the oil pan and that the wrist pin had welded itself to the rod which punched a fist sized hole in the cylinder wall. Still never found out what would have caused the fuel piston to swell shut. I don't know anyone personally that has ever had that problem though.
It gave me a good excuse for building the motor that I really wanted to begin with, haha.
It gave me a good excuse for building the motor that I really wanted to begin with, haha.
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I've had a fuel piston swell shut before (TNT kit). We linked it back the the additives (nitromethane and ethanol and other oxignators) in the Sunoco 94 we were using at the time.
Originally Posted by NXJeremy
Had a fuel solenoid not open due to a swelled piston. Kind of a crazy thing, I was at the track with my T/A when it was bone stock w/ a 150hp wet NX system. Car went from 9.0's to 7.60's on the nitrous. Plugs looked good so we didn't think anything was wrong. On the last pass I decided to spray it at the launch, well it launched very hard (I was on slicks) and about the time I was going to hit 2nd gear it went boom. When we pulled the motor apart I found that I had 100's of pieces of #7 piston in the oil pan and that the wrist pin had welded itself to the rod which punched a fist sized hole in the cylinder wall. Still never found out what would have caused the fuel piston to swell shut. I don't know anyone personally that has ever had that problem though.
It gave me a good excuse for building the motor that I really wanted to begin with, haha.
It gave me a good excuse for building the motor that I really wanted to begin with, haha.
FormerVendor
Joined: Apr 2005
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From: Wichita Falls,Tx
Originally Posted by Matt@HSW
I've had a fuel piston swell shut before (TNT kit). We linked it back the the additives (nitromethane and ethanol and other oxignators) in the Sunoco 94 we were using at the time.
This is some good experiences, let's keep 'em coming if we can. I'm not looking for anything really radical. Just a 100-150 shot on a cam with ALL the safety features. Maybe when the car is completely paid off I'll get more extreme.
I also had a piston seal swell up and not open from using Sunoco 94. Luckily I caught it and the motor was ok. I switched to a different piston seal and things have been great ever since. 
Originally Posted by Robert56
You guys probably know allready, but for those reading along, there are noids made for alternative fuels, Nitromethane, alky and others.
Correct, there is. The downside is when the fuel manufacture stops adding the additives then the new pistons swell. Can't win them all I guess. Most of these problems with fuel solenoid plungers swelling is limited to cretin regions of the country.
Originally Posted by Robert56
You guys probably know allready, but for those reading along, there are noids made for alternative fuels, Nitromethane, alky and others.
Originally Posted by joblo1978
I'm trying to learn all I can about Nitrous.
Can everyone post their nitrous mishaps, the circumstances around it and the damage it caused?
Can everyone post their nitrous mishaps, the circumstances around it and the damage it caused?
Originally Posted by 1ScrudeDude
Preventable? Or a freak thing?
The car went rich one one bottle pass then super rich on the 2nd (after leaning out the fuel)...I couldn't make any sense out of it so I should've stopped right there...the 3rd pass it blew
Was it preventable? only if i stopped after the 2nd pull. a freak thing?..it was for me cuz I never would've expected it to happen