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Old 01-17-2010, 03:00 PM
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I have a couple questions pertaining to equipment used.I have a older stage 1 snow performance pump and their solenoid for up front. I want to use my kit for safety and cooling only and not for added hp.
1.) Can I use 3/8" braided hose as a feed from the pump to solenoid ? ( doing rear mount pump )
2.) What size nozzle should I run ? ( Currently at 15 psi boost)
3.) Should I run straight water or 50/50 ?
4.) If straight water can I get away without having the car retuned ? Thanks Dave

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Old 01-17-2010, 03:23 PM
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1. yes
2. http://www.alcohol-injection.com/for...lator-351.html
3. 50/50
4. yes
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Old 01-17-2010, 03:27 PM
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1. should be fine
2. everyone's setup is different, you're probably going to have to play with a few different nozzles.
3. Neither, straight meth
4. if you run straight water, sure. I think that straight water injection is a waste of a meth/water injection kit. Sure you'll cool the intake charge a bit, but if you have an efficient intercooler, that should cool your charge nicely anyway.
Old 01-17-2010, 03:41 PM
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Sweet thanks for the responses. By playing with different nozzles should I be monitoring my a/f gauge and adjust accordingly ?
Old 01-17-2010, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dave
Sweet thanks for the responses. By playing with different nozzles should I be monitoring my a/f gauge and adjust accordingly ?
What kind of fluid do you plan on spraying?

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Old 01-17-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dave
I have a couple questions pertaining to equipment used.I have a older stage 1 snow performance pump and their solenoid for up front. I want to use my kit for safety and cooling only and not for added hp.
1.) Can I use 3/8" braided hose as a feed from the pump to solenoid ? ( doing rear mount pump )
2.) What size nozzle should I run ? ( Currently at 15 psi boost)
3.) Should I run straight water or 50/50 ?
4.) If straight water can I get away without having the car retuned ? Thanks Dave
Don't use straight water. It works but you would be better off using -20 windshield washer fluid. It doesn't have a lot of methanol in it so it won't have a big impact on air fuel if that's what your worried about. It will only drop you air fuel a half point. A little extra fuel won't require a retune if you don't want to retune for it just yet.

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Old 01-17-2010, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by AIS
What kind of fluid do you plan on spraying?

Rodney
After looking at some posts I think i'll experiment a bit and see which one works best. My big thing is I wanna try and avoid a retune because that involves traveling pretty far to do so since there are no well established tuners comfortable with nissans around where I live. Thats a really clean set up ya posted .
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Does anybody have any pictures of where they installed their meth lights? I'm having a really hard time figuring out where to mount those lights. Green for spray ON, and Red for low fluid. If anybody can post their pics on their setup where they mounted those lights that would be great.
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Originally Posted by Goo$e
Does anybody have any pictures of where they installed their meth lights? I'm having a really hard time figuring out where to mount those lights. Green for spray ON, and Red for low fluid. If anybody can post their pics on their setup where they mounted those lights that would be great.
Here's where I mounted my status light. I don't have a low level light since I use the washer reservoir.

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Thanks, if everybody else can post up their pics where they installed theirs that would be great. I do not have any a-pillar gauges so will most likely not mount my 2 lights up there. Even so it still gives people ideas. Thanks for the pic.

Also...do you think the 2.5 gallon reservoir will fit behind the stock bose sub compartment behind the drivers seat? That space is totally empty and would be a good spot for me to put that.
Old 01-19-2010, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by BriGuyMax
Here's where I mounted my status light. I don't have a low level light since I use the washer reservoir.

Same place where I have mine...

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Old 01-19-2010, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by athenG
Same place where I have mine...
me too...
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This thread is incredible and needs to be stickied. Definitely learned alot from it, don't know why this thread died off.

I'm actually planning on running straight meth or denatured alcohol injection. I'm using a used Coolingmist Trunkmount kit and a cm7 nozzle equivalent to a 750cc injector with almost 14lbs of boost.
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