lines and gauges questions

[evilbeef54]

okay so when i got my edelbrock preformer kit it obviously came with the line to run from the bottle to the selinoid, however this line was a few feet longer than i needed, is there a down side to this, and im guessing that the line can not be shortened in any way??



my other question is: i am concidering installing two gauges 1) a nitrous pressure gague in the cockpit, probably under my dash and 2) an air/fuel ratio gague. does anyone have any experience with either of these gauges (which ones to use or stay away from and why) as it concerns gauge 1... how is this gauge installed, remotely from the gauge port or do i need to install it inbetween the tank and selinoid, if it is between the latter then again i suspect that i will have a lot of extra line. as far as gauge two is concerned... the car is a carb. 350ci 72 camaro so no computers or anything to worry about, i do want a gauge that would be accurate enough to tune my engine with, as far as i understand i will need to take my car to a muffer shop and have them weld in a bung for an o2sensor and i will attach my a/f gauge to that??

sorry to be long winded but i dont want to waste money, thankyou

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[bleu]

not sure about part one as I don't have that part. for part two you are correct. You want a "wideband" O2 sensor. When you get ready to tune you may want to try some hill climbing under load. I am no expert but you'll want to reproduce the load on the engine to recreate the conditions you will be running. many O2 senors will tend to jump around at other times other than load. Also some senors have a memory function in which it will remember the hi/low values for the last run etc. You get what you pay for.

[The Racer's Edge]

There are two differnet answers to your nitrous gauge question. 1 it is typical that racers use the npt port on bottle necks to install a bottle pressure gauge, this alows them to monitor the bottle pressure when they are out of the car. Alot of racers have a few bottles and keep them in a hopper for constant readyness, having a gauge on the bottle is good to monmitor the pressure when being warmed up. 2 personally i like the colbalt or C2 gauges from autometer, they come with their own mutliwire feedback senders. They are better then most electrical gauges that use only a 1 wire ground referance, now alot of people like to use mechanical gauges, these are nice in race cars however not the best for street use. a mechanical gauge alows the nitrous to flow directly to the gauge for a reading, this means there is nitrous in a line running into your car. Not the best thing to have a nitrous line leak in your car while your driving!:ops:
Now as far as o2 sensors go, one of the best things i have come across is Innovate Motorsports Wide Band O2 Sensor Kit, it comes complete with the O2 sensor and reader, it has data logging capabilities which alows you to record a pass and look at the results,get this with the optional rpm sensor and you can see at what RPM your car is going lean or rich. The kit comes with one O2 bung but they offer additional bungs for dual exhausts.
My company sells these items and many more, and I would be happy to hook you up, feel free to call.:rockon:
Tim
www.ShopTheRacersEdge.com
(631)774-8297 9am-9pm

[evilbeef54]

okay so if i understand right the cobalt or c2 gauge electronically gets its info sent to it and can be installed in the cockpit, if so i think that's probably what i'll go with since i was thinkin of re-doing all my gauges in a white face (that is of course if the car doesn't sell soon, (anyone wanna buy a 72 camaro :) )

[The Racer's Edge]

C2 series gauges are the white face version of the Colbolt series gauges