Nitrous Express "N-tercooler"

[Sydwyndr]

Does anyone have any experience with this piece??

Seems like a real good idea for a stock stretch intercooler, looks like it woul make it perform as if it were a frontmount...

Thanks...

http://www.nitrousexpress.com/Catalog/4ntercooler.pdf

 

[Michael McCoy]

Tell TR we're leaving with his stuff shortly Clint. Thanks bud.

 

[Black Car]

The unit should cool the IC but you will be wasting a lots of nitrous.

IMO, a better way to cool the intake charge is to spray a 10-20 HP charge of nitrous before the throttle body.

That way all the nitrous cooling is being taken advantage of and thia small amount can be compensated for in your setup.
BTDT and it works.

Gary

 

[Pronto]

The cataloge says the bottle can be filled with CO2 so that would be cheaper. I'ld like to see the results firsthand at the track. Seems interesting.

 

[n20junkie]

i second the shot in the intake, a 25 hp shot is barly noticable as far as the oxygen enrichment, but as a intercooling effect, -125 degrees is a serious cool down, and its alot more efficent thatn trying to cool an intercooler that is trying to cool the air, your jut losing to much for all that gas, and co2 is cheaper, but still costs a good bit, and how many bottles can you carry, cause a 25 shot of juice will last 2 weeks, a bottle of co2 will last about 2 passes.
Grant

 

[galoush]

Just hit the motor with the 150 shot and stop being a Pu$$y Check out my recent Nitrous post .

 

[Black Car]

sydwyndr was talking about cooling down the air charge not making horsepower with Nitrous. That is why I suggested using the small 20 hp shot. This way a bottle will last a very long time compared to 150 hp shot.
Yes, back in the early 90's I ran a two stage nitrous system with good results. Plus I setup over seven other Buicks with a single stage system. So I know first hand that it can be used safely.

sydwyndr, if/when you get over to Raleigh, give ne a call & drop by.

Gary

 

[turbo buicks]

Originally posted by n20junkie
i second the shot in the intake, a 25 hp shot is barly noticable as far as the oxygen enrichment, but as a intercooling effect, -125 degrees is a serious cool down, and its alot more efficent thatn trying to cool an intercooler that is trying to cool the air, your jut losing to much for all that gas, and co2 is cheaper, but still costs a good bit, and how many bottles can you carry, cause a 25 shot of juice will last 2 weeks, a bottle of co2 will last about 2 passes.
Grant

i hope you're not advocating running a c02 injection system on your motor, that obviously would not work.

 

[n20junkie]

i said that nitrous injected in the engine is more efficient that trying to cool the intercooler that is trying to cool the air, and that co2 is much cheaper but more than expensive, cooling the intercooler suggests spryaring it externally on the fins, an inert or nobale gas would never increase performance on its own without the inclusion of a oxidizer, you just had to read the post a bit slower.
Grant

 

[turbo buicks]

you are right, n20 plumbed into the engine works much better than spraying it in the i/c. all the peole i talk to say c02 is cheaper tho. idk, never priced it. i always thought c02 sprayed into the motor would not only not work but would actually inhibit combustion and stop the engine.

 

[TS6]

Guys really need to do a search on this before posting. If you try to spray the ic with CO2, more than likely your motor will ingest it, especially under boost, and it will inhibit combustion. If you want to spray with nitrous, go at it, but your motor may ingest that too, which may not be good. Buy a good ic and be done with it.

 

[whitehot84]

That system probably costs 5 or 6 hundred bucks then nitrous over a year would be another couple hundred. There's a good front mount already.

 

[Black Car]

The point that I & N20junkie was trying to make was that even with a good or excellent IC; a 20hp shot of nitrous will improve or cool the air charged down more.
On a 90-100 degree day the best an air-to-air IC will get you down to is 100 degree range. With the introduction of -132 degrees nitrous, you can bet that the air temp will lower. We know how these engines love cold dense air.

This is more importance (evidence) on a street car than a race only car.

 

[turbosam6]

A good intercooler can flow more air, which is a bigger gain than dropping air temperature. If you want to drop your air temp, try an alky kit running methanol. My intake is cool to the touch after a WOT blast.

All the nitrous in the world won't make up for big pressure drop across a restrictive intercooler. It might "band aid" it by giving you back some performance, but why bother? As was said, the cost of a kit alone would buy a nice used FM, not considering what bottle refills run.