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melo yelo
10-15-2006, 04:12 PM
How bad is it to run fuel into a nitrous solenoid?
Can a purge solenoid be used as a regular N2O solenoid, they are the same are they not?
How necessary is an fpss?
What is everyone's opinion on running a longer nitrous to solenoid line, to avoid the lean spike with initial hit?
This is just a street car thats sees some occasional track time and not a race car. Basically what happened was that my solenoids were hooked up wrong and I am looking to correct the problem for as cheap as possible and to also make this setup as simple and idiot proof as possible.
How bad is it to run fuel into a nitrous solenoid?
Most nitrous solenoids are able to open up upto 1200psi. So if you're running 35psi fuel into it, it will open with no problem. Keep in mind nitrous will not work for a fuel solenoid.
Can a purge solenoid be used as a regular N2O solenoid, they are the same are they not?
Yes. they're usually the same solenoid with 2 different labels on them
How necessary is an fpss?
It's not necessary, but it is a nice safety feature that could save your engine.
What is everyone's opinion on running a longer nitrous to solenoid line, to avoid the lean spike with initial hit?
This is just a street car thats sees some occasional track time and not a race car. Basically what happened was that my solenoids were hooked up wrong and I am looking to correct the problem for as cheap as possible and to also make this setup as simple and idiot proof as possible.
What kind of car are you running?
srsnow
10-16-2006, 02:53 PM
Fuel solenoids are usually larger .125 orfice vs. a .073 orifice. At EFI pressure this probably wouldn't be a problem. The thing to look out for is not all nitrous solenoids use teflon plungers and a standard nitrous plunger will not work with gas.
Most purge solenoids are standard nitrous solenoids, although I know some places played around with very small orifice solenoids so that they would open under higher pressure. Not sure if any of those every made it into production though.
melo yelo
10-16-2006, 05:17 PM
Most nitrous solenoids are able to open up upto 1200psi. So if you're running 35psi fuel into it, it will open with no problem. Keep in mind nitrous will not work for a fuel solenoid.
Yes. they're usually the same solenoid with 2 different labels on them
It's not necessary, but it is a nice safety feature that could save your engine.
What kind of car are you running?
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