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05-02-2005, 07:23 PM | #1 |
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Nitrous cutting out
I have a '90GT with aftermarket heads/cam/intake. I went to my local drag strip on Fri. night. I recently installed a bottle warmer kit in hopes to get the most out of my nitrous system & finally get some consistent performance out of my NOS #5115 150 dry shot. Well the bottle warmer did help out. My car went quicker down the 1,320' for sure. The nitrous worked perfectly right off the launch, through 1st, 2nd & 3rd gear...but when I shifted into 4th it pretty much felt like the nitrous turned off. So I tried one more run on the juice only to find out that the nitrous wasn't even working this time. At first I thought the problem might be that the vacuum line had blown off the nitrous regulator, which would have made sense seeing how that vacuum line is what boosts the fuel pressure up to 85psi. to mix with the incoming nitrous oxide. No such luck. The vacuum line was secured and in place. I continued to look at all the vacuum lines in hopes to find one that had fallen off of the manifold or dried out & was cracking. But...everything looked fine. Then it dawned on me that it has been years since I've rebuilt my nitrous solenoids. Do you think this could be my problem? Oh, & I have plenty of fuel voume & pressure. I have a 155lph intank fuel pump and an MSD 200gph inline fuel pump. So it's not the fuel pressure safety switch shutting off the flow of nitrous due to inadequate fuel pressure.
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05-03-2005, 08:38 PM | #2 |
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Re: Nitrous cutting out
the solinoid makes sense, do you have a filter on the nitrous? Maby its clogged. how much bottle pressure are you spraying with?
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05-04-2005, 04:40 PM | #4 |
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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
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05-05-2005, 11:15 AM | #6 |
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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.
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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.
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those bottles corrode inside. keep an eye on your filter.
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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!!!
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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.
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anytime
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