Drugnet,

Thats great your Insurance covered it. Who's your insurance company and what did they say?

 

Puddling......lol. Every "dry guy" trys to use that BS excuse.

I had a problem one time where a wire was pinched and caused my nitrous system to activate, but without the bottle open. NX wet kit with a 35 fuel jet (the 150 shot fuel jet). All fuel, NO NITROUS, I ended up spraying fuel only for about 10 seconds straight a couple of times, from both low and high RPM's.

The damage = NOTHING. Nadda, zip, zilch, other than the car running really slowly from being so rich. And the car ran a bit rich N/A as it was. If there was ever a condition to cause puddling, that would be it. That was many mods ago too, where she was internally stock, stock manifolds, and couldn't pull nearly the air it pulls now.

I'll never run a dry kit. The big dogs never seem to run dry kits either. Besides, if you want to run a seperate fuel system for the nitrous, you don't have a choice but to run a wet kit. WET > DRY.

 

Pat Musi runs a dry kit.

 

To add to that list Mark Dantoni,Mike Yedgarian(2 stages dry),Nick Scavo prior to going turbo and many others. People are spraying motors with as much as 1200hp possibly even more? These guy's that run dry kits also have the same ability for horsepower as the wet kits. So don't get the idea that wet kits will make the most power because that's the farthest from the truth. It really is a person's preference and budget to weather they use wet or dry.

Actually I feel that if you have the bucks to purchase a high end ECM and everything else that goes along with it not to mention plumbing to really do it correct, the dry kit offers better control of tunning thru the use of ECM which in turn will cut down parts breakage vs the wet kit.

Lets face it if your going to be competitive and make maxi power with nitrous you will for sure break parts! You will burn pistons!

But if the choice was either wet or dry I would go with dry setup and allow the ECM to control the fuel via the injector and timming.

Just have your check book or Visa's ready.

 

Guys this is the same old debate, just at a higher level.

No doubt Pat Musi knows what he's doing, but frankly none of the Pat Musi EFI motors have done much in Pro Mod (Not that the rest of the N20 cars have done much this year lol), so the wet Systems are still reigning king there.

Don't take this the wrong way, I think a properly setup Wet System using a FAST or DFI Gen7 is great (don't even include the regular old NOS Dry units with FMUs, they're not in the same league here).

For the average Joe the simple wet system is where its at. JMO.

Couldn't have said it any better myself Jim. How many pistons do you order in a set? I know I ordered 10 for my new engine.

 

I get 10 pistons each time $1200.00 OUCH! I have quite a few new pistons just a step bigger but for the most part when ever I have a lean out I always kill the bore and have to go bigger to cleanup the bore. The funny thing is the first time I don't get the extra's I could use the same bore size and wouldn't have the piston.

But with all luck this year I figured for fun to slap this LT1 together and see what it will take on the bottle? Jeff Prock doing the nitrous side we might not kill it so bad. So we figured to start right out of the gate with the 400hp tuneup and go from there. My money is on the motor grenading! Wade is assembling the motor now and we are just waiting on him.

That's the way luck goes.

 

Two words.....direct port. Both wet and dry have their advantages. and disadvantages. Dry kits are a much sounder way of using delivering the extra fuel WHEN the supporting mods are there ie fuel pump and injectors. Which as was said half the guys running around don't have. There are literally thousands of people that have used wet kits on lt1 intakes with no problems, in actuality unless you're spraying a really big wet shot or your intake has been ported and polished you don't really run a risk of puddling, the factory intake has casting flash which creates turbulence around the walls keeping the gas suspended. Obviously there's always an exception or two, but I wouldn't go and not by a wet kit cause one guy in several thousand has had a backfire.