Introduction,
As many of you know Nitrous Outlet offers many different options to choose from when it comes to choosing a Nitrous System for your ride. We have the largest selection in different brands and designs. We carry anything from Nitrous Express, NOS, ZEX, 860 performance, racetronix, to our own inhouse brand. No matter your taste or desire we have you covered. All this backed with the best customer service and tech help available.

This series of did you know tips are to showcase some of the new Nitrous Outlet brand products available today.

So here we go...
Did you know that Nitrous Outet offers there own brand products? Did you know that the Nitrous Outlet team spends a great deal of time and money to design new innovative and quality products for you? Did you know the products are designed around offering the best quality available instead of cutting cost for profit?

If your answer to any of these questions was NO. I hope that these series of did you know post changes that No to Yes.

For the guys that missed part one you can find it here.
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=650228

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Did You Know Part 2

Nitrous Outlet Plate design.

The Nitrous Outlet plate design took a full year of design and testing to come up with the ending result of the best plate system on the market.

Going into the design process we knew that we did not want our discharge aimed at the back of the intake. Current designs that were on the market for the TPI and LT1 intakes aimed the discharge at the back of the intake. With the plate being placed so close to the front runners there was a potential hazard of over powering the back runners and missing the front runners. We also knew that we wanted a clean sexy design that fit and functioned perfectly.

Our first design left a little to be desired. We started off by having a plate water cut and then plumbed tubes into it. The spray tubes were contoured around the throttle body’s butterfly. We designed the discharges in the tubes to spray across the intake throat instead of at the back of the intake. To seal the plate to the throttle body we made a paper gasket.
After spending all this time and having the first article of design we were not pleased at all. Yes the unit should work ok. But it lacked the quality that everyone expects with the Nitrous Outlet name. The more I looked at the part the more I became disappointed.

Here is the first plate design. Keep in mind it is a test part not final product. Final products are when you start working on the cosmetics.


Now back to the drawing board. We set down and talked about what we had and what we wanted. Being that there was no current plate system on the LS1 market we wanted to hit a home run the first time. We wanted the best performing, best fitting, best looking plate period!!! We started by talking about what we did not like about the plate we already had. The question was how do we make it better!!!

Here is how.
Loose the spray bars. That was old technology. The fix was a perimeter design. With the perimeter design we would be able to offer the best discharge available by breaking up the mixture the best way possible. This created the best atomized discharge available on the market today. Being that the plate is so close to the front intake runners this was very important. We did not want the potential of over powering the back cylinders.

Next was the cheesy paper gasket. All this new technology why use a paper gasket. YUCK!!! So we decided to take the factory GM O-ring gasket and have it machined into the plate. Now we had a factory O-Ring gasket sealing the plate to the intake and the throttle body to the plate. Perfect!!!!

Now we have the discharge and the gasket figured out time to concentrate on the throttle cable extension bracket. This was an easy fix. We took and made an aluminum bracket that would space the factory throttle cable bracket forward. Now the cable lined up and worked perfectly.

We ran into a small problem on the 97-04 Corvettes. Moving the throttle body forward ¾ of an inch pushed the AIT motor into the power steering pump reservoir. You could simply bend the bracket for the reservoir by pulling it forward and everything was ok but still real close. So to fix this issue we created a kit that would replace the stock power steering hose from the reservoir to the pump and then space the reservoir forward. We also ran into a problem on the GM trucks. We had to relocate the inlet fitting to the side of the plate to clear everything on the truck intake.

We now had the discharge, gasket, and fitment all figured out. Time to test it. We went through the normal process of checking the flow of the plate. Then we put it through much dyno and real world driving test. It passed with flying colors!!!

Time to make it sexy!!!
We went to the CNC machine. All units were CNC and the inlet fittings were placed facing towards the cab of the car. The billet aluminum plates were then sent to anodizing and anodized black. From there they went to laser etching to have the fuel and nitrous inlet fitting labeled. To top it off the Nitrous Outlet Logo was placed on top.

We now had the final product. All the people involved in the process were extremely happy with the final design. With a smile on our faces we looked at the pile of scraped parts it took to bring this awesome product to market. Everyone involved had a great deal of time and money tied up in what we hoped to be the best thing on the market.

We were ready to bring it to market. We were surprised at the response the customers were giving us back on the plate. To this day we have not received one complaint from an unhappy customer. The results have spoken for themselves time and time again. We accomplished what we set out to do. We had developed the efi nitrous plate that would revolutionize the nitrous industry!!!!
Here are pictures showing the discharge design and machined in O-ring gasket.

 

This is the final product. Ill show off the 90mm design.







This is the Truck plate.


Here is a flow video complements of Beer.
http://www.retrorelics.net/jim/Board...;s%20Plate.wmv

Thank you for reading..
If you have a Nitrous Outlet plate system please post up showing off your pictures and share with us how you like it.

 

Can you upgrade any wet kit to a plate set-up?

 

that is sweet!!! any plate setup for an LT1?

 

We built a plate for the 52mm and 58mm LT1 applications. There was not enough sales to justify doing another batch of plates due to the fact we would have to have X amount made at a time to keep it affordable.

However here lately I have received a good amount of request asking for our LT1 plates. Maybe I could do a group purchase. If there is enough interest Ill bring them back to market. Here is what the original units looked like.





Dave

 

What kind of shot will those plates support?

 

We flowed the plates to around the 400hp shot mark.

-Chris

 

Are there any distribution problems with the plate with that high of a shot? What would stop me then from using one of those plates to do a 300 shot setup versus a more costly direct port? Or did you remedy any distribution problems with tuning?

 

The LT1 intake has flow restrictions that would create distribution problems for any non direct ported system above 200 to 250 hp.

 

What is the price range on that LT1 plate system?