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fekbmax

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Nitrous oxide FE
« on: February 19, 2016, 10:17:00 AM »
I'm wondering if anyone here has ever built an all out nitrous FE. Or possibly knows of any links to such a thing. I'm talking 3 to 4 hundred + shot, single or multiple stage setup foggers or plate/fogger combo's.
Sorry if NOS is a bad word around here but I'm interested.
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2016, 11:41:11 AM »
Most I've ever run is a 250 shot, plates on a 3X2 intake.  Some of the guys I know from Drag Week run a 500 shot successfully.  The eventual winner in DW05 had a ground wire break on his fuel solenoid at the third track, and injected pure nitrous during his pass.  He replaced all the pistons at the track, drove all night, and still made it to day 4.  Moral of the story is use a very, very good wiring setup. 
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- 1964 Ford Galaxie, Drag Week 2009 Winner Modified NA (9.50s @ 143), 585" SOHC
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2016, 11:45:52 AM »
He replaced all the pistons at the track, drove all night, and still made it to day 4.  Moral of the story is use a very, very good wiring setup.
Unreal fortitude.
I would've been on the trailer.
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2016, 12:38:59 PM »
Yeah, that was a great story.  One of the other competitors drove at breakneck speed about 100 miles to get the pistons the car needed before the speed shop that had them closed at 5:00 PM.  I think he made it as they were locking up.  Brought back the pistons and rings, and the guys gapped the rings with an angle grinder they'd brought along (!), and got the motor back together around midnight.  Hit the mandatory checkpoint at 3:00 AM, and pulled into National Trail about 9:30 Thursday morning.  Then the driver says, "I'm hoping it will run a little faster with a freshen-up on the motor" LOL!  He went out and ran an 8.55 to back up his lead in the Unlimited class. 

The first Drag Week was so awesome...
Jay Brown
- 1969 Mach 1, Drag Week 2005 Winner NA/BB, 511" FE (10.60s @ 129); Drag Week 2007 Runner-Up PA/BB, 490" Supercharged FE (9.35 @ 151)
- 1964 Ford Galaxie, Drag Week 2009 Winner Modified NA (9.50s @ 143), 585" SOHC
- 1969 Shelby Clone, Drag Week 2015 Winner Modified NA (Average 8.98 @ 149), 585" SOHC

   

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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2016, 12:49:21 PM »
I had a racing buddy that ran a nitrous fox body Mustang, but it was Windsor powered. He ran a two stage system that added around 500 horse on top of the approx 800 horse the motor made. He didn't always use the second stage. Dave was a working stiff, but with a good job, and did most of the work himself and ran a lot of used parts sourced from the internet, but good stuff. The car ran well, he ran it at both the big Mustang events and bracket raced it and he could go rounds. He also broke a lot of parts along the way lol. I remember one time where he accidentally turned off his secondary fuel system just before his run - he had the switches on a console next to his seat and his seat belt harness had hit the switch - he burned all the pistons. He just laughed it off that night around the campfire and ordered more pistons the next day and had the car back running the next race. Dave was in the process of building a new Mustang from a body in white when he found out he had brain cancer and sadly past away a year later. That was quite a few years ago now so unfortunately he's not around to answer some questions, but I know he'd say go for it.
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2016, 12:56:31 PM »
That's one advantage to having "shelf" type parts sometimes. "Shelf" parts are not always a bad thing, if you can come up with the right combo that works for you, old school..  After all mixing and matching shelf parts has alot to do with all the custom combo's that came after.
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2016, 04:48:33 PM »
That's one advantage to having "shelf" type parts sometimes.

If you're serious about running stages of nitrous, you'd better keep more than just one "shelf" of parts handy ;)  I know it can be done, but sooner or later, it's gonna bite back hard.
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Re: Nitrous oxide FE
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2016, 07:28:44 PM »
I was just alluding to the guy Jay was talking about, being able to go pick up a set of pistons from a speed shop and getting it back together that night.
I'd dare say a improperly or greedy tuned turbo/supercharger combination could also bite back pretty hard also..  ;)
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