just installed a" fogger" 75hp. what a rush. cvt took it all with no problems!

 

Any pics? I would have to say that will cause warranty issues, but how cool is it to have a NO2 bottle in the boot of a MINI

 

bottles in the rear, next to the c.d. changer, under the first aid kit. only good for 5 shots.

 

>>only good for 5 shots.

Damn, that sounds like a small bottle! :smile: What size bottle are you running, and which company did you go with?

Also, do you install a blow-down tube?

 

Not exactly knowing much about the CVT tranny, by design, is it better suited to handle power, or not. I thought not...and 75 jets are big!!! Did you start off with some 40 or 50s first and move up to the 75?

I've got many friends with Miata's (the 1.6 engine) that have funny gas on 'em. They all say that 75 is the TOP you can go, and that it's really pushing it. 50 is mucho safer.

R

 

Ugh. Nitrous. I think its cheating, but thats just my opinion.

 

>>Ugh. Nitrous. I think its cheating, but thats just my opinion.


Yeah, it's cheating...but it's FUN

 

I'm also curious as to the company used for the nitrous. Also curious about the question asked about a "blow-down tube", as I don't know what that is.

As an aside, kudos to CUTiger for the Whalen Shift Machine. We love ours! For the rest of you - it won't make your car scoot like nitrous, but the Whalens are way cool:

http://www.whalenshiftmachine.com/

tom@wigginsassociates.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~bmwmini

 

Hi Tom,

The blow-down tube that I refer to is a pipe that attaches to a safety nipple on the nitrous bottle and runs down to the outside of the car, usually requiring a hole to be drilled through the floorboard of wherever you mounted the bottle (usually trunk). This is done so that in the event that the bottle becomes overpressurized, a safety disc in the nipple will rupture, allowing the nitrous oxide to escape from the bottle and into the atmosphere. If you don't have a blow down tube to route the gases to the outside of your car, gas will escape into your car. Particularly bad for our cars, since our trunk/hatch is not separated by some sort of firewall. Inhalation can result in suffication at worst or a mild headache at the very least.

I believe most racing sanctions require this if you run nitrous.

Your fellow SoCaler,

Albert

 

>>Hi Tom,
>>
>>The blow-down tube that I refer to is a pipe that attaches to a safety nipple on the nitrous bottle and runs down to the outside of the car, usually requiring a hole to be drilled through the floorboard of wherever you mounted the bottle (usually trunk). This is done so that in the event that the bottle becomes overpressurized, a safety disc in the nipple will rupture, allowing the nitrous oxide to escape from the bottle and into the atmosphere. If you don't have a blow down tube to route the gases to the outside of your car, gas will escape into your car. Particularly bad for our cars, since our trunk/hatch is not separated by some sort of firewall. Inhalation can result in suffication at worst or a mild headache at the very least.

*** Suffocation? Gee, isn't nitrous the stuff that we used to go into supermarkets in the Seventies and suck out of all the whip cream cans and then go laughing down the aisles (NOW you know what there was no propellant in those cans back then...). Didn't realize that nitrous was so dangerous. Then again, there were a lot of things in the Seventies that I didn't think were dangerous


>>I believe most racing sanctions require this if you run nitrous.

*** Thanks for the info and good to hear from a SoCal MINI guy.
Tom Wiggins
tom@wigginsassociates.com

>>Your fellow SoCaler,
>>
>>Albert

 

>>*** Suffocation? Gee, isn't nitrous the stuff that we used to go into supermarkets in the Seventies and suck out of all the whip cream cans and then go laughing down the aisles

I think in extreme cases it can cause asphyxiation (sp?) by displacing the oxygen in air. And yep, it's the same funny gas but here's a little tid bit about motor-grade nitrous (the kind we can buy over the counter in order to fill up nitrous bottles). It contains some sulfur dioxide (I think it's 3%) to deter against nitrous oxide abuse. Sulfur dioxide is a human irritant (causing headaches, etc.) but benign to our motors at that small of an amount.


>>*** Thanks for the info and good to hear from a SoCal MINI guy.


You doin' any motorin' this weekend? :smile:

 

I love MCO, you learn something everyday!