Updated NITROUS thread for N/A, any newcomers? Upgrades shots or new stories?

[hawk362]

Lately I've been seeing a lot of new threads on N/A TT conversions, and updates for it. Since there hasn't been a real/significant nitrous thread in the past couple months, I wanted to see how everyone is doing with their spray, any newcomers, any personal experiences lately, bigger shots, new products, experimentation, future plans, questions/concerns about spray etc...???

For me up until rescently I never used to warm my bottles up before spraying my motor, but I started warming up the bottles using the heater in the car to see if it would make a difference this month just to try it out, and I have to say warming the bottle up before spraying makes a world of a difference. Before I used to get a gradual increase in power when the nitrous hit, now when I have the bottle warm its a really significant gain in power and torque immediately unlike before when you felt a sort of a lag then gradual increase. Now its like your on the dot hit, you really feel it pick up right away!

Also I was spraying until 6600rpms with the 100shot on my atx, and the car was passing up redline after shifting almost close to 7300rpms everytime, and I could tell my tranny was heating up pretty bad even with the upgraded cooler, so now I switched over to 6200 rpm cutoff to be on the safe side for my wet shot and the car shifts much safer around 6900-7100 with the atx.

I'm hoping by summer to purchase a nice torque converter with a 3600 stall, spray a 125 shot at 3800-6200rpms, and see what it does at the track, I am really hoping to touch at least the 13's, and then I'll never ask for anything again, if I can be in the 13's with my car I will be happy, thats all I really want with this car, I know for you VR4 folks or FI Converted peeps that like meh, but for a atx N/A on the price budget that I had it would be a really great/big significant accomplishment, well at least for me anyways......

[hawk362]

Any insight???

[gipper72488]

ive been considering it. its cheaper than going turbo. bhut i found a new way of potentaly boosting the sohc so.l..i dunno yet

[hawk362]

Originally Posted by gipper72488

ive been considering it. its cheaper than going turbo. bhut i found a new way of potentaly boosting the sohc so.l..i dunno yet

What's your new way of boosting if you dont mind me asking?

[aapstealth]

I have really been thinking about NOS latley and am waiting on someone to send it to me but I dought he will. I wanna go with a 50shot DRY I have a MTX so I can control the shift with no problem. I wanna start out small and move my way up. I heard I could but a cut off switch and set it to a certian RPM I have also heard about cut off switches involving Fuel pressure and oil pressure which cut off NOS if anything drops too low. So if the NOS ever comes my way I will try it. I know it has to be done right so thats where Ill be paying out the ass.

[hawk362]

Yeah just purchase a window switch and you can set the rpms for example at 3-6000rpms for nitrous to start and end. 50 Shot is a safe number to start up with, and depending on the condition of your motor and regular maintinence is completed on the car.

The main thing I can't stress enough is to get colder spark plugs. Other than that have fun, it was definitely worth the purchase for me, I never though my car could perform the way it does now.

[cwic]

i would'nt go with a dry shot though= not so safe. Why would u have a heater and not use it? makes a big diff, it kinda like when u spray and the bottle is almost empty and it tapers off. u r not getting the full shot if the bottle is not up to pressure.
clay

[hawk362]

Originally Posted by cwic

i would'nt go with a dry shot though= not so safe. Why would u have a heater and not use it? makes a big diff, it kinda like when u spray and the bottle is almost empty and it tapers off. u r not getting the full shot if the bottle is not up to pressure.
clay

No I don't have a bottle warmer if thats what you are referring to, but I didn't think it make that much of a difference, but then I started using the heat vents in my car to heat up the bottle on the way to a race, and after putting the warmed up bottle in and sprayed, I notice a really significant gain in power, I'm probalbly just going to end up purchasing a nice bottle warmer from Zex because 8months out of the year here in chicago its colder.

[cwic]

cool, didnt think that the heater in ur car was the actual heater/vents. def worth the money if u live somewhere it gets cold.
Clay

[LUSTFUL]

well be careful bumping the pressure up too much. Your jets are a constant so there is only so much fuel going in, there is no change for bottle pressure. As a result if you get the bottle pressure up to high it will be lean and that is bad news across the board. I suspect you are lean as it is and that is why you are experiencing the bump in power. Lean is mean, but just not a safe method. How is that for insight?
Do you have a bottle pressure guage?