I finished installing my ZEX wet nitrous kit yesterday! Install went smooth and I got the tank filled today. I haven't tested it out yet although everything works perfect. The Purge button is a great deal of fun and gets a lot of attention. Feel free to post any questions! More pics of the purge shot to come...

A special thanx to Charles R. Hill for all his guidance and support. I would have given up without his info! Couldn't have done it without ya!

Another special thank you to RotaryRasp for donating his time, garage, and tools.
Thank you both big time!
I will update with "butt dyno" results!


Enjoy...

 

more....

 

looks great, and hope it works well.
let us know your butt dyno results :D

how so....?

 

Damn thats awsome, wonder how much you'll pull away from us on the streights. How long was it to install it?

 

what the HELL ................. It looks like a JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!

I wish you routed the hoses better.

Congrats.........

Main thing is it works.

 

I can always count on you Razz!

I will be going out for a run in a bit...

 

Damn still considering the nitrous............

Nice work, don't get a ticket.

 

Have you seen the night time purge kit you can get? Adds a light so when you purge it lights up the NOS spray.

 

I guess a lot of people are turning to nos

 

Well, the butt dyno results are in.....They say:

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO

Deffinatley a noticable difference. Nothing crazy, but its deffinately there. Third gear pinned is the best because before u know it, your at 96 mph! I love it!
Its just enough "umph" to make up for whats missing whil stock, yet its not too crazy to where you're afraid to use it.

 

Could you put all the power to the wheels or did the ecu kick in the traction?

 

I thought about NOS until I saw the vid of the C5 Vette blow up from a NOS backfire. I think I'll save and do it right with FI.

 

The DSC/TC will activate even with the stock engine so, yes, you need to disable the DSC/TC so as to not wreck your rear brake pads.

Dan, you can loosen up the big hex coupler and rotate the gauge for better visibility without loosening up the feed coupler(that gauge looks familiar, BTW). Plus, Razz will fully understand why the lines could stand to be better organized once he gets his own system, won't he? Right now, the important thing is to make sure the system works properly. Next comes the contemplation and line re-routing for apperances. If you had another 55 h.p. waiting to be used which would be your priority?

I call third gear the "Time Machine" gear because that seems to be where everything really comes together, as Dan mentions.

Now if I can use Dan as a guinea pig and ask him to get the "N" flash to see what my problems are.....JK.

Not to diminish the dangers of a backfire but I had one recently, the reason is still unknown, and the only thing that happened was that the resonance box blew open. I fixed it with Super Glue, ordered a new one, and the engine runs fine. The nitrous is still giving me headaches but I am beginning to think it is the "N" flash messing with the nitrous.

CRH

 

I'd be very scared of nitrous after seeing this video of a mustang w/ Nitrous on a dyno.
What size shot are you running?

 

Dan and I are both running the 55 shots. That's all the Renesis will allow without ignition mods. That's why GReddy has limited their turbo to the same neighborhood. I am also running the exact same set up that I ran last year and back then it was flawless and cut 1.0-1.1 seconds off my e.t. The only thing I can reasonbly think of that has changed is going from the M to N flash.

I am almost at my wit's end and I am also bumming because the street scene right now is ripe for my taking and I can really use the cash.

Don't get all hung up on these nitrous backfire videos. Sure, there are risks to be taken with just about any mod but the real question is whether or not the cause of the backfires was user error or improper installation. Most of us on this forum have no clue how lucky we are to have each other because there are people who make livings knowing less than we do about cars. Quite sad, really.

CRH

 

CoooL! I never saw that video! But obviously something went wrong there. You could hear the nitrous shot was waaayyy too much. Especially on a dyno

 

I would venture a guess that the fuel solenoid wasn't hooked up or responding properly, for some reason, because of the immediacy of the explosion. If the ignition advance was not properly reduced, or the A/F/N ratios were incorrect, it would have knocked way before it would have blown. Mine blew in much the same way except that the resonance box contained much of the concussion wave and gave itself up. $90 later and I am back in business. There are days, however, that I wish I had a turbo kit instead.

CRH

 

I second that^

Hopefully,(knock on wood) I wont experience any major problems. And lets not forget it was a ford that blew up. Also, we dont know how much nitrous he used. It sounded lke a lot since you could clearly hear the "kshhhhhhhhht" before it blew

 

I believe the traction control works by retarding the timing.

 

Isn't Mazda a Ford product now? If so, where does this leave us....

 

it SURE is kwescott, ford saved mazda's *** from bankruptcy, i grugedly am starting to try to not hate ford as much...

 

Ford owns part on paper only. The car is still designed and built in Japan. And Ford could NEVER master the rotory engine like mazda has

 

To my knowledge, the RX-8 was a project that Ford had nothing to do with. If I thought the RX-8 was full of stuff out of the Ford parts bin, I may not have bought it.

 

The Mustang and Mazda 6's are built on the same line in Flat Rock, MI at the Auto Alliance plant. I'd be willing to bet that they share several parts. I'll also tell you from first-hand experience that manufaturers use shelf parts as often as they can to reduce costs. DCX did that with the Crossfire using several Mercedes parts.

People at my work griped a bit about me buying a car built in Japan until I showed them where the wiring harnesses are typically built. When they saw several tags saying "Made in China" or "Made in Mexico" they backed off. The same goes for Harleys, too.

But we were talking about nitrous systems, weren't we.....

CRH