Nitrous

My buddy syxxgunnar@aol.com is being a wimp or over cautious.. He wants to run a 50 hp nitrous shot and not an ounce more, but a local shop has him so scared that he needs a bottle warmer and all this crap right off the bat... I figure his 3.8 could easily handle a 50HP shot on his well tuned car.. What is your opinions... Also, they are screaming a wet setup is the only way to go and let a pro install it... I know a dry setup is nothing to install..

He should be ok with a 50 shot and a well tuned car. As far as installing it - I, myself, would keep it to the pros :D :cool:

i have seen some good runs with an amature install and a 75 shot. but when it comes to nitrous one can never be too carefull. i have seen some pretty nice things and some pretty focked up things. i would spray but i cant seem to get rid of the ses light.

install it yourself , its not hard, ive never done it on an F-body , but its the same thing for all cars, solenoids, lines, wires, nozzles

I know we can install it and since he is only running a 50HP shot I figure he could work up into all the mods of NOS... The shop must have confused him because he is talking like he needsa 1500 dolalr setup right off the bat, boost a pump, wet kit, bottle heater, pressure switches.. Yes they are all nice, but at such a low shot all that can be added on as he goes.... Now I agree once he pushes over 70HP it would not be bad to improve safety, but 50 just does not seem like a lot on a well maintained engine..

n20 is no laughing matter when it comes down to it. It can be just as dangerous to a motor with a 50 shot or a 250 shot.

Running a dry set-up 50 shot is far different then running a wet 50 shot. For a stock fuel pump and stock injectors I would go wet set-up all the way. What if he runs his 50 shot (dry) and looses pulse to one injector???:eek: That is why I like wet setups. :D

Actually I would go wet set-up period. Now I may just be over cautious but on my set-up I had a bottle heater ( which is only used to bring up the pressure inside the bottle ) Fuel pressure safety switch ( I would reccomend this ) MSD window switch ( because I ran this when I had the 6-speed in my car and a must with manual cars ) and a full throttle activation switch. With all of these checks and balances I was to the point I didn't have to worry about failure and blowing up my motor

I vote wet system, its just safer. The bottle warmer isn't really a safety thing so he can go without if the budget is tight. Its nice for maintaining bottle pressure, if you don't have it then pressure could drop and you run slower, but you don't break anything.

you can blow up the engine just as easy at 50hp then at 75.....

nitrous is never 100% safe.........