Purge and bottle necessary?
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Staging Lane
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Purge and bottle necessary? Can lack of a purge hurt my motor with a wet kit? How much et will a purge save me? Do I need a bottle heater? I own both but my installer buddy is saying I need neither for my cts v install and the purge will make it hit harder than necessary. I am not sweating the last hundredth of a second. From an engine safety standpoint can lack of a purge hurt my motor ? Thanks
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Ran 2-3 years with no purge. If you are that worried about it, crack the fitting a touch at the noid after you install bottle. Heater is a must if you are below 900 Lbs. Don't be a dumbass that uses a propane torch, wire up your heater!! you already paid for it. My opinion.
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Ran 2-3 years with no purge. If you are that worried about it, crack the fitting a touch at the noid after you install bottle. Heater is a must if you are below 900 Lbs. Don't be a dumbass that uses a propane torch, wire up your heater!! you already paid for it. My opinion.
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Originally Posted by mrdragster1970
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Ran 2-3 years with no purge. If you are that worried about it, crack the fitting a touch at the noid after you install bottle. Heater is a must if you are below 900 Lbs. Don't be a dumbass that uses a propane torch, wire up your heater!! you already paid for it. My opinion.
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Ran 2-3 years with no purge. If you are that worried about it, crack the fitting a touch at the noid after you install bottle. Heater is a must if you are below 900 Lbs. Don't be a dumbass that uses a propane torch, wire up your heater!! you already paid for it. My opinion.
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+1 for the pro.
Bottle heater is a must. After a couple of runs, you'll probably need one. I agree, don't be a tool with the torch. I like the purge for the intimidation factor and to clear the lines without worring if I got the fitting tight without leaks.
I ran without a purge for an entire season with no harmful effects. I used to rev up my engine a couple of grand (approx 3k rpms) and then tap the nos button a couple of times until the engine would start reving higher than that on it's own when I tap the button. Once I hear the engine responding to the nitrous, then it's a wrap... The process was very simple and didn't even take 2 seconds.
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Staging Lane
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Thanks alot guys, especially for not ripping my *** for reading the stickys. My buddy (installer) has an 8 sec twin turbo third gen bird (buick 6) and he can be intimidating. I'll install that stuff myself I guess.
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Be safe & do it right. Don't let someone intimidate you. Find someone to help in your area, or ask ?? here before you hurt something. None of it is that hard. Everyone started somewhere. Good luck. Oh yea, tell him 8 seconds, "big deal".
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Be safe & do it right. Don't let someone intimidate you. Find someone to help in your area, or ask ?? here before you hurt something. None of it is that hard. Everyone started somewhere. Good luck. Oh yea, tell him 8 seconds, "big deal".
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Originally Posted by mrdragster1970
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Be safe & do it right. Don't let someone intimidate you. Find someone to help in your area, or ask ?? here before you hurt something. None of it is that hard. Everyone started somewhere. Good luck. Oh yea, tell him 8 seconds, "big deal".
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Be safe & do it right. Don't let someone intimidate you. Find someone to help in your area, or ask ?? here before you hurt something. None of it is that hard. Everyone started somewhere. Good luck. Oh yea, tell him 8 seconds, "big deal".
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Teching In
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doing it right yeah, do it right. i've seen guys heating nos bottles with a propane torch at the drags. didn't have time to wait for the bottle heater to work. already in staging lanes and almost ready to go. there is a 12 volt hair dryer avail.i wonder how they would work? if you didn't have a bottle heater. only costs 14.00 for one...........RON
The 12v travel hair dryers don't put out 1200 watts like plug in ones. Power is Power. It would take 100 amps of 12v juice to make a 1200 watt hair dryer. (vs. 10 amps house current at 110v)
If you need faster warm ups, use another bottle heater or a 860 AND a blanket heater. Run a relay and 10-12 ga wires. And for god's sake man, make sure it has some sort of automatic "off" switch. Heat is accumulative.
If you need faster warm ups, use another bottle heater or a 860 AND a blanket heater. Run a relay and 10-12 ga wires. And for god's sake man, make sure it has some sort of automatic "off" switch. Heat is accumulative.
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From: Illinois, RT 66 dragway area
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Forgot to mention, purge is most important to make pressure consistant. Getting the tiny bit of air out of line also, but not as important as consistant pressure. We don't do it to show off.
Never heard about hair dryer. Like Todd said, watts = volts X amps. Don't know if a 30 watt dryer will work, someone try it and let us know.
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Forgot to mention, purge is most important to make pressure consistant. Getting the tiny bit of air out of line also, but not as important as consistant pressure. We don't do it to show off.
Never heard about hair dryer. Like Todd said, watts = volts X amps. Don't know if a 30 watt dryer will work, someone try it and let us know.
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I don't run purge, if I can pick one up cheap I will but you would be wise to buy a heater, everytime I see someone heating their bottle up with a torch it makes me shake my head. I have seen what tanks and bottles will do when they rupture and it isn't pretty and a torch is a good way to make them rupture.
Yeah, you ain't **** unless you run 6-7 sec. .
I manually controlled my heaters with just a switch. A little bit of a pain, but I could alway keep the pressure the same, and I didn't waste the go gas.
.I manually controlled my heaters with just a switch. A little bit of a pain, but I could alway keep the pressure the same, and I didn't waste the go gas.
