ok, here we go, just ordered a wet nitrous kit for the C32
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i had done it about 1 year ago.... car is still running great and strong. but... i strongly recommend you to run this setup with a shop that has a dyno. Evosport had work tremedously hard to get my bottles installed... and they have done a GREAT job.
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care to give us some more details on your setup?
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i haave a big stereo system in the back before i got the nitrous setup, so... i had to get 2 smaller bottles in order to cram it in there. basically, i have a switch under my arm-rest and i can activate it when i want to give it a go. A straight shot into the intake, i am already running EVOsport stage 2, with a straight pipe setup. with the 40 shots nitrous, my dyno came around 400rwhp. its been running great, but i am gettin tired of filling these babies up. haha
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pix of?? the bottles? everything is hidden under the engine bay. you cannot see anything from engine, the most i can show you is my lil-switch in my armrest and my bottles in the back. which, has no real meanings.
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This sounds awsome! I definitely wouldn't try it, especially given the lack of an engineered system for this car, but it should be very interesting. Take a video of it and post it on You Tube.
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Reminds me of the old joke -- What's the most common last word among rednecks?
"Watch this."
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An easy way to check this out is contact ANY positive displacement blower manufactuer, and the FIRST question they will ask you is " Are you going to run the blower Wet or Dry". They have to know this to set up the impeller clearance. DRY blowers can be set VERY tight, WET can not.
Remember, your physics, or a hydralulic jack, you CAN NOT compress fluids, ie they take up the same amount of space, GAS's are easy to compress.
Fill a pop botlle up all the way with water and sqeeze it, now fill the bottle up with air and squeeze it, get the picture.
Oh well, as I said, I know I WOULD NEVER try it on my Whipple, or C32.
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Don't forget that Nitrous is 50% more dense than air. Picturing this in my mind, what we're going to be doing is cramming a very volatile gas into a unit designed to handle air only and then compressing it between gears of very tight clearance. We'll also be coupling this with some heat from the pressurization process.
Again, should be extremely interesting. I don't think any resulting explosion will be enough to blow a hole in the case or send the fast moving lysholm units out the side but....
Again, should be extremely interesting. I don't think any resulting explosion will be enough to blow a hole in the case or send the fast moving lysholm units out the side but....
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You are right about nitrous, but in theory the rotor blades DON"T ever touch when the impellers are properly timed from the factory. If they did, there would be serious problems
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Well, what causes nitrous to explode in the combustion chamber? Pressure, heat and oxygen right? Inside the OP's blower case, we're going to have: 1) the nitrous being compressed via fine gears; 2) oxygen, 3) a whole lot of pressure because of the additional material (pressure the case and gears aren't designed to handle); and, 4) heat (and probably more so than normal due to the addition of the additional material). Is that all enough to combust the nitrous? I'm not an engineer so I don't know. I'm guessing it may be.
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Well, what causes nitrous to explode in the combustion chamber? Pressure, heat and oxygen right? Inside the OP's blower case, we're going to have: 1) the nitrous being compressed via fine gears; 2) oxygen, 3) a whole lot of pressure because of the additional material (pressure the case and gears aren't designed to handle); and, 4) heat (and probably more so than normal due to the addition of the additional material). Is that all enough to combust the nitrous? I'm not an engineer so I don't know. I'm guessing it may be.
If there was fuel running through the S/C, then you would have issues.
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Sounds like we have ourselves a dispute. Only one way to resolve it. On one hand, I don't want the guy to get blown to smithereens but on the other, I'm more than a bit curious about this little physics dilemma. I say drill the nozzle right into the top of the blower case and shoot it in there and see what happens. What the hell. Just wear a fire suit!
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You will also need fuel. There is no fuel running through the S/C. When nitrous is heated, it actually breaks down and releases more oxygen. The extra power in nitrous comes when it is combined with fuel and heated up during the compression stroke. This oxygen can burn more fuel, which creates higher cylinder pressures, which equals more HP.
If there was fuel running through the S/C, then you would have issues.
If there was fuel running through the S/C, then you would have issues.
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