I've talked about my car for years, but never really had pics to show. Well my new e-mail offers hosting so here they are.





Fuel Cell and Dummy Battery


Fuel Cell and Dummy Battery Close Up


Gauge Cluster with recently remove oil temp, and 0-15 psi fuel pressure added


DynoTune Blue backlit nitrous pressure gauge (blurry shot...)

 

"QWK GOST" The car that started what is now the obsession... Bone stock it went 14.1 @ 98mph (A4, t-tops, etc.)


1LE intake elbow, MTI cold air intake, Accel 300+ ignition system, HPP+, 160* thermo, poly trans mount and TA mount, K&N valve cover breather, BFG DR's 255-50-15, fastest was 13.5 @103mph, 1.98 60 ft.


July something, 1998 28,xxx miles located in Studio City/Burbank.


Stock Engine


As the Engine looks today

 

The custom nitrous kit (NX parts) custom fuel cell and custom fuel system are thanks to folks on here. Pics I saw of their setups, PM's I sent, tech tips, etc.

Thank you all very much.

PS: This is what I've got so far out of the custom fuel system and nitrous kit at "100 hp shot" levels (50 hp per nozzle.)

Nitrous and NA Dyno Graph

As you can see, we let out about 5,200 rpm as the motor started to go lean. Should see nearly 700 rwhp on a "100 shot" from NX tech themselves. Not to mention the 750ish torque.

Thanks again for all the help over the years. Looking for 9's finally.

 

That dumby battery is the exact same thing i am doing with my zex box. Should be quite good.

 

Nice,
A freind of mine has one of those dummy battereis in his dart.
Your set up with our hidden cheater intake would be a truely 100% hidden system and still have seperate fuel system.
Dave

 

very clean install on the fuel cell, but i have to ask... why are you trying to hide your nitrous system when the nozzles are still plumbed into the side of the elbow?

 

Those dummy batteries are great. I've hid everything from nitrous solenoids to alky setups in them.

 

Where can you get a dummy battery like that? Was it custom made? Can you buy one already like that?

 

Well the dummy battery is more to keep the engine compartment looking stock. Besides the Trick Flow intake elbow, the two Shark nozzles, the headers and the over the valve cover wires the engine looks stock.

It's great, I'll break off a mid to high 10 at the track and folks will come over to check out the car. Then they see under the hood and look around for another white Camaro... Then they ask if it was me and I say yes. And they are even more shocked to see the stock 6-spd inside. Can't wait to feel a 9 sec run out of it... Although I won't be the first, it will still feel great for me.

I went to a local battery shop (actual an AC Delco supplier) and asked them to order me one. $20 and I got it. Not quite what I wanted and I need to redo it. I wanted a flat top, like a sealed one that came in the car... but he could only get the older (add water) style. He ordered it with the lid off, so I had to cut the bottom out, and the cross baffles inside, and then epoxy the lid on. Doesn't look that clean in person, but no-one ever notices it. I have a stock ground strap that I am going to bolt onto the terminal for more authenticity, but I need a stock power one to match.

At first I wanted to put the nozzles under the intake, or more at an angle to hide them, but with the Meziere water pump it just wasn't feasable.

I more wanted a clean install. My first nitrous install (5176 dry) was totally hidden. I hid the solonoids in the ASR box and ran split loom over everything else. The only way you could find the kit was to look for the fan nozzle going up into the 1LE bellows.

Nitro Dave... what does your setup look like?

I don't street race anymore (they cracked down HARD out here) because of the possibility of being sent to the Ref, going to jail, car impounded, lawsuit, etc. And I am trying to get hired by a police agency so I'm on super secret double probation So there is no need to hide the nitrous from other "racers", I just like the clean looks of a stock engine compartment and shocking people when they see it run the numbers. Not to mention how easy it is to work on without all that crap in the way.

The solonoids are mounted on a bracket under/behind the lower radiator support.

 

Where did you get or how did you make that gauge cluster? I'd love to move mine from off the A-pillar to something like that.

And why do you say built motors and dry nitrous kits don't mix?

Thanks,
Joe

 

I got that gauge panel from RK Sport back in the DAY. Not sure if they make/sell them anymore... but about the ONLY thing worth buying from those crooks.

You could get it with no holes, no cig lighter, or two cig lighter holes, and two gauge holes, etc.

I opted for one cig lighter and no holes and drilled my own.

I think it was $35-$60...

As for dry nitrous kits and built motors...

On my stock '96 LT1 with stock manifolds and dual cat I went from 13.1 @ 106mph to 11.7 @ 119mph with the 5176 kit (150 shot.)

With my 396 solid roller, AFR heads, etc with the SAME EXACT kit, I went from 11.22 @ 122mph to 10.78 @ 129mph.

So before I dropped 1.4 seconds and gained 13mph and with the built motor I dropped .44 and gained 7 mph?

I know the faster you go, the harder it is to go faster, but still.

So I built this custom fuel cell/fuel system/nitrous kit to handle up to a 300 shot. But with the numbers I'm getting out of the "100 hp shot" I doubt I'll ever even try 300.

My motor has JE pistons, Oliver Billet Rods, Callies crank, Oliver billet splayed mains (even front and rear billet caps), ARP studs, 11.9:1 comp ratio, etc. Cam is a 250ish/250ish .660"ish/.660"ish on a 112ls. AFR 190's worked over to measure 218-219 cc, to keep the low lift numbers good. Car pulls from idle to 7,000 rpm, no dead spots.

 

Unfortunately RKSport doesn't make those gauge panels anymore and I can't find one anywhere.

Those are interesting before/after results with the stroker. I'm running the 5176 kit now and may just to convert to wet soon as I'm curious.

 

Well, feel free to use that pic and ask around to see if anyone knows who makes them. I doubt that RK Sport made them themselves anyway. They were known as taking other products, claiming them as their own and marking them WAY up. And charging rediculous prices for shipping...

 

I have something similar in my car..
http://www.quarter-mile.net/images/T...or/ACpanel.gif
My fuel pump switches, alky controls and boost controller all goes in there. Need to get a new plastic piece though...the faux carbon fiber looks pretty gay.

For my battery box, I just got an old junk one and knocked the bottom out of it and cleaned it out real good. Cost me...well, nothing.

 

WHYTLIE, Do you mind sharing the specs on your nitrous set-up? I am wanting to run a dual nozzel set-up with a seperate fuel system for a 200 shot.