Seems like the big game is getting the dang bottle heated up quickly, but evenly. I was thinking.. (scary. I know).. of tapping off the radiator line (on the C5 there's a line to the throttle body.. not sure about the others) and running that back to bottle. Wrap a few turns of copper tubing around the base of the N2o bottle and regulate it all with a flow control switch. Would be pretty easy and you'd have a 200* bottle heater.
Anyone ever try it?

 

so how much heat do you lose...i like the idea of a relay cutting off my heat source...what happens if you bust line...
hot water everywhere!@!@

 

Todd I can't imagine this being a 100% original idea, but...No, I am not aware of anyone using a "cool can" (cool cans wrap alum tubing around inside a bucket to cool fuel) approach to heat the bottle. I think it would be less weight, and less complex to use a good quality heater like Dynotunes Auto, NX/860 bracket etc. Some ppl use the Hotbox, which only takes a minute or two to get a bottle up to pressure.

 

That's kinda where I got the idea from. The bottle heater I have, and ones I've seen, usually take a little while to heat up larger bottles. Mine takes 20-30 mins when about 1/2 full. Also, the "better" the heater is, the more current it would have to be drawing. Just thought of this 'cuz it was "free heat"

 

I don't think its a bad idea. You will have to be carefull not to overheat the bottle though.

Another idea along these lines would be to put a heater core next to your bottle and hook a pressure switch up to a fan, so the fan would blow the hot air over your bottle, and when the bottle gets up to temp it would shut off.

 

Try coming up north in the winter if ya want to see how hard it is to heat a bottle. Aren't you guys at at least 70* year around?
Robert

 

ya.. in the dead of winter.

 

the idea has been toyed with it really can't be regulated, and i personally would not mess with my cooling system for the vehicle

 

Hey Charlie, what's this hot box you speak of, never heard of it, even the damn torch takes a while when it's cold out!

 

wouldn't the bottle have to be open all the time so it dosn't get to hot and blow the disk?
or is that what the flow control switch would be used for?

 

Just figured you could use a pressure switch. If there were NO pressure on the switch, control valve would close. Under desired pressure, control valve open. Desired pressure, control valve close. My company makes these types of control switches and valves. Although ours are aircraft quality, and quite expensive, there are cheaper versions out there.