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Old Nov 13, 2005 | 08:40 AM
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After put on my 250hp dynotune nitrous noid I went and made acouple runs. Noticed it didn't hit very had so I pulled over and started testing. Found only the nitrous noid was opening, no fuel . After more testing I found that they both will open if I ground the soleniods wire at the noid basically bypassing the msd. But for some reason the nitrous noid opens but the fuel will not using the msd. The fuel noid was making alittle vibrating noise which would tell me it trying to open but maybe isn't getting a good ground. I just came in from regrounding the msd and no luck. Any ideas, all the wiring is from a 05177 maybe it's not big enough.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 01:38 AM
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You say regrounded the msd but did you reground the fuel noid to the msd? Maybe its a bad connection from the fuel to the msd? Bypassing the the msd maybe the wire got tweaked a certain way for it to work? Dunno just throwing some stuff out there. back to again.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 07:49 AM
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Are you grounding the solenoids through the MSD? Or grounding a relay to ground the solenoids through the MSD. The MSD contacts can't support the current draw from the solenoids.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 08:24 AM
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Are you grounding the solenoids through the MSD? Or grounding a relay to ground the solenoids through the MSD. The MSD contacts can't support the current draw from the solenoids.
This is what it sounds like to me also.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by jamnut
This is what it sounds like to me also.
Yes I just grounding the noids with the msd. This is not good? I should use it to ground the relay.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 09:21 AM
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Just ground the relay, the noid's should be grounded through the window switch, the Relay should be grounded through the window switch.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 09:21 AM
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Yes you are wiring it wrong. Use a relay.
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I might not have made myself clear enough in the above post.

Ground the noids to the Chasis, then run the relay ground to the window switch.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 12:29 PM
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Oh thats does make sense.
Here is what I have. The wot switch is grounding the relay, the msd is grounding the noids. So should I use the wot switch to ground the noids and the msd to ground the relay.

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Originally Posted by 99SSLS1
Oh thats does make sense.
Here is what I have. The wot switch is grounding the relay, the msd is grounding the noids. So should I use the wot switch to ground the noids and the msd to ground the relay.
w.o.s in series with the relay coil, use the MSD to ground the relay coil. Use the relay contact to supply power to the solenoids.
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http://www.nitrousexpress.com/Instru...ndowswitch.pdf
4th page on these instructions is the way it should be wired. Yellow is the same on the msd as it is on the nx window switch.
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http://www.nitrousexpress.com/Instru...ndowswitch.pdf
4th page on these instructions is the way it should be wired. Yellow is the same on the msd as it is on the nx window switch.
Dam how I get that messed up, looks like I gotta rewire it all. Thanks
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 03:41 PM
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Dam how I get that messed up, looks like I gotta rewire it all. Thanks
Careful which wiring diagram you use. There is a 5177 and msd wiring schematic in the stickies above. I believe NOS and NX do the wiring different, so you may get confused using a non NOS diagram.
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Old Nov 14, 2005 | 04:34 PM
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Careful which wiring diagram you use. There is a 5177 and msd wiring schematic in the stickies above. I believe NOS and NX do the wiring different, so you may get confused using a non NOS diagram.
Robert
Your right the wire colors are different but luckily I figured her out using the NX site.


IT WORKS, all is well.
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