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Old 06-16-2005, 03:00 PM   #10 (permalink)
cybernova
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RE:Nitrous Oxide - FAQ (Ressurected!)

Okay kind of a newbie on Nitrous.
I have been reading a lot and have read every faq/comment/suggestion i could find about nitrous on ZEX; Venom and NEX websites and now on NECO .. this FAQ has by far been the most informative piece of writing i have seen as yet. Thank you so very much to Nemesis for compiling this.
There is one question that may have been covered a little in the FAQ but not to my understanding as yet. I have accertained that a wet-nitrous kit is the one to use on my 2000 returnless MTX cougar and is a bit safer as you are feeding fuel as well as the N2O into the engine.
My uncertainty arrises from the fact that nowhere have a read anything about where and how to tie into the fuel line. On NEX's instruction manual link on the website, i read through the installation manual of their "EFI stage 1 kit" (i believe the same one is for sale on CC) it shows how and where to tie into this fuel line, but not on a cougar. I was just checking to see if anyone could give me any feedback on their installations and which seemed the easiest solution.
My second uncertainty was what the best fuel pressure guages to use are (electrical/mechanical -- pors/cons). My guess was that a fuel pressure guage would be the best indicator to whether or not your engine is about to run lean and do the dangerous pyrotechnics that everyone warns about. I would think that a Nitrous boost/pressure guage used in conjunction with the fuel pressure guage would be a great indicator or 'warning light' should i say of impending disaster. With the reports on the varying efficiency and likely failure of our fuel pumps, I would guess that it going out while under WOT and spraying could be calamatous to say the least..
My final couple question, if you will, are what are the advantages to adding a purge valve and what exactly is it 'purging'? Secondly how important is it to maintain a certain temperature(ie:a bottle heater/blanket) whilst the car is sitting and the bottle turned off. I ask this as i am located in colorado springs and the temperature drops dramatically in winter. I read a post about a 'bottle exploding'. Even though N2O is not flamable there were pictures of this as well, so i got to questioning.
Thank you once again for reading my concerns. I only question as i really want to add a some 'squeeze' to my cougar.


Please respond and let me know if my slow-dawning understanding of nitrous is starting to take shape or if i branched off on a tangent to nowhere..

Thanks much



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