skymynx

Got bored so made a FAQ about Nitrous. Let me know about any more questions you might have. If your in CT and need help installing a nitrous system let me know.

How does nitrous work?

Basically nitrous, is an oxidizer. By injecting it into your engine it adds a substantial amount of oxygen. This extra oxygen creates additional power by allowing more fuel to be burned. This allows the engine to work more efficiently therefore resulting in more horsepower. The added oxygen also super cools the air coming into the engine, therefore significantly lowering your iat's.

What kind of kits are there?

You have two main kinds of kits. A dry kit and a wet kit. A dry kit injects only nitrous into your engine. It relies on the injectors to add the necessary fuel. A wet kit injectors nitrous and fuel into the engine. A wet kit is much safer in terms of a bolt-on application. A dry kit needs to be proper tuned via HPTuners where as a wet kit can be tuned via jets.

What comes in a kit?

What you'll get for the most part with any kit is a bottle, lines, solenoids (electronically controls when the nitrous is activated) arming switch, activation switch of some kind, nozzle and the proper size jets (jets control how much fuel or nitrous actually go in the car).

How is nitrous activated?

There are many ways to activate a nitrous system. The most common is a WOT (Wide Open Throttle) switch. Its basically a bracket that when it senses the car is a full throttle will engage the nitrous. For the ss/sc guys your going to need a special kit if you want this. You'll need whats called a drive-by-wire WOT kit. Since our throttle is controlled by a wire we cant use the standard bracket. Basically the kit is an electronic WOT kit. There is a also a push button switch. This is just what it seems like. Its a momentary switch that when you activate it the nitrous activates for only the time period that you hold the switch down. Both have whats called an arming switch. This is basically a safety switch. Until this is turned on nothing can work.

Are there any add-ons for the switches?

There are many accessories. Basically you have two main accessories as far as the activation. You have a window switch and a progressive controller. A window switch will allow you to preset what rpm and what gear you want the nitrous to activate. The nitrous wont activate until you want it too basically. A progressive controller takes the window switch one step further. Some concept except it actually allows you to control the amount of nitrous that goes in. For example, you can have a 50 shot in second gear, and a 75 shot in third.

What kind of accessories are there for nitrous?

Heaters, tank sizes, bottle openers, purge kits, pressure gauges and a few other small things.

What kind of heaters are there?

There are two main kinds of heating systems. One is purely electronic. It will heat the bottle or cool it to the desired psi that you have preset the system to. The other system actually gets hooked into the system. It goes off of the actually pressure of the tank and then adjusts it to the proper psi.

What kind of tanks are there?

Tanks comes in various sizes: 10 oz, 1 pound, 2 pounds, 5 pounds, 10 pounds and 15 pounds just to name a few. This is also hi-flow valves and super hi-flow valves. The super hi-flow valves is basically for nitrous systems pushing out 200 plus horse.

What kind of bottle openers are there?

Once again two main options. You can get a bottle opener that goes in the nitrous line. This is basically just a solenoid. Then there is a bottle opener that actually bolts onto the tank itself. This is the better system. The first one i mentioned you actually have to have the bottle open, the solenoid just basically prevents it from going into the line.

Whats a purge kit?

When you open the bottle nitrous fills the lines. The thing is when the line is filled theres air in the line. This can bog an engine. What a purge kit does is purge the lines. Its also a show thing.

Whats a pressure gauge?

Basically this displays the psi inside the lines and bottle. You typically want b/w 950-1000 depending on your setup.

RuSSo-29

Nice write up. The lsj N20 specs would fit nice in here aswell.

Omega_5

Good info!

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Spanky's Monkey

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good deal

skymynx

what exactly do you mean lsj N20 specs. do you mean what you can put on the car?

lol thanks for the invisible rep

AlphaJaguar5

The first part is wrong. Nitrous doesn't make power in itself, the extra fuel you can add by adding nitrous is what makes the extra power.

skymynx

Not really dont see where i say nitrous all by itself makes power all by itself.

Spanky's Monkey

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alpha you're wrong too. the extra power is actually made by the combination of burning the additional oxygen from the n2o and the additional fuel added by the wet shot.

AlphaJaguar5

Right there^^^

The extra oxygen doesn't create power as oxygen cannot create power in on itself unless you separated the atoms and then you would get a nasty explosion that would melt your engine and kill you and on top of that not give you any horsepower.

Your being ignorant...

skymynx

You clearly don't want to take the time to read. I didn't say that nitrous all by itself makes the power. Why not slow down and take the time to read. And how is anyone being ignorant. Its the combo of more oxygen AND more fuel that creates the additional power. Not just more fuel.

This extra oxygen creates additional power by allowing more fuel to be burned. Yea sry but this is clearly stating that its a combo not that its just nitrous. And if your going to argue that this sentence is false, please do call up Holley and let them know since that sentence is word for word off their website.

AlphaJaguar5

What you said was misleading. The nitrous allows for more fuel which is what actually makes the power as you just stated. What you were implying is that nitrous makes power along with the fuel, which is false. I just wanted to make it crystal that way noone got confused

skymynx

Nitrous does make power. Maybe not how you see it but as most see it, it does. It does alot more then just allowing you to add more fuel. It significantly lowers your iats. And this we all know is a big power stealer on our ss/sc. The lower iats will result in more power. A good portion of power comes as a result of the fuel. Wont argue with you there. But a portion does come from the nitrous.

skymynx

umdated with a lil more info

ryan3243

great write-up. i now know more about what i plan on putting in my car. Thanks

Area47

alpha. wrong.

sorry man.

nitrous by itself does not make power. when the compression hits this cute little mixture splits. the oxygen content of this is what makes the power. this is why extra fuel is needed to keep the afr in line to a degree.

more oxygen being injested requires more fuel. dumping raw fuel into a chamber will not create power.


nitrous oxide is not flammable.
it becomes flammable when the nitrous and oxygen are compressed and split apart. it also contains sulfer in the automotive grade. why? to prevent you from huffing it, nothing more.

hatrickstu

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oh ****... didnt know that.

Scythe_Snake

great write up. Needs a sticky! I thought there was a third 'tier' to nitrous. Direct injection I heard was the best.

Area47

yea. it sucks. when you work at a shop, and the line breaks next to you, and you injest it. it doesn't feel real good.

an0malous

dont they teach the combustion triangle in schools anymore? lol.

Oxygen doesnt make power.
fuel doesnt make power.

COMBUSTION makes power.

combustion requires Fuel, an oxidiser (usually oxygen), and a heat/ignition source.


OP: Good write up

IonNinja

probably the best way to put it...so all previous to this post are wrong, muahaha.

besides I think the only thing Alpha was saying is that nitrous itself is worthless without the additional fuel which IS true.