Nitrous cutting out

Originally Posted by 84gt347

i dont know about a rebuild schedule on those. It would be interesting to know if you are getting a black cloud with those cut outs, kinda indicating a rich condition, that would also indicate the nitrous cutting off or running low

As far as I know there were no black clouds. I had quite a few friends watching the race when it cut out and no one mentioned seeing anything like that. From in the car it definitely felt like a rich condition was occuring. 1st, 2nd & 3rd gears were insane...sticking me back in the seat. I shift into 4th and the nitrous definitely had shut off. It felt REAL slow all of a sudden being back to just on motor, running 8 degrees of timing...with the rich condition, from the second I shifted into 4th, all the way to the finish line.

[84gt347]

well, id start with the things we've gone over so far and move on to other things if its still not solved. i'll bet its one of the things we mentioned already.

Well I'm pretty sure I found the problem! My nitrous filter had a lot of debri in it. Looking through the screen...it's probably 80% clogged. The stuff clogging it looks kind of like teflon. I know not to use teflon tape on nitrous connections though. I've always used liquid teflon on all the fittings on my nitrous system. So how would chunks of teflon get embedded into the filter like that? Or is it possible that the nitrous that I just got filled into my bottle was somehow dirty?! So I'm cleaning the filter out & rebuilding my nitrous solenoids. I want to make sure none of this crap got past the filter and into the solenoids.

[84gt347]

those bottles corrode inside. keep an eye on your filter.

Originally Posted by 84gt347

those bottles corrode inside. keep an eye on your filter.

Good to know. Thanks man. My bottle is only a year old...so hopefully it's ok inside. Soo...in your opinion should I still rebuild, or at least take apart the solenoids to make sure nothing has gotten in there? Or do you think the nitrous filter catches most of the debri? The screen doesn't seem like much of a filter to me. Looks like plenty of small particles could get through it.

[84gt347]

certainly inspect the solinoids. the filter should catch most anything that would peel off the inside of a bottle. never hurts to look, since you are gonna be there anyway.

hurry up and get it runnin and let me know if its fixed!!!

Will do! I'm going to the lake this weekend so I might not get to it until next weekend. I should have everything fixed by then though, for sure. Thanks for your input 84gt347.