yeah and now we've got thousands of people out there who are as ignorant as the people who made the movies.

 

i just picked up a 15 lb nitrous bottle, brackets, straps and a bottle warmer for $100.00. how hard is it to set up the nitrous lines by my self?? i have swapped motors, turboed cas and swapped trans. but never nitrous. how hard is it?? and would it be better to have a shop put it in??

 

It's pretty easy, but if you've never done it before, buy a kit (you can get them without a bottle from every manufacturer I know of) and follow the directions carefully.

There's nothing particularly tricky or hard about doing a nitrous install, but there's definitely a right way and a wrong way. A good place to start would be www.nosnitrous.com or www.barrygrant.com - both websites have good FAQ pages and kit instructions available online if you poke around a little.

 

I'm not sure if I have this mixed up, but a dry kit is supposed to be easier to install than a wet kit, because a wet kit taps into the return fuel line, so there's a bit more work involved. If I have that backwards someone correct me.

 

^^^^ thats correct. iam planning on getting a wet system tho just cuz of the extra HP it provides.

 

A wet kit supplies both nitrous and fuel through the nozzle(s); A dry kit only adds nitrous, and relies on raising fuel pressure to add the extra fuel through the regular injectors. Unless we're talking very high horsepower levels, there's no power advantage to running a wet system instead of a dry one. The engine doesn't know or care where the extra fuel and oxidizer are coming from, as long as they're in the proper amounts.

I prefer wet, because I feel that it gives you better control of how much fuel is being delivered.

Wet systems get their fuel either from a test port on the fuel rail or from a "T" inserted into the fuel line that supplies the rail. The return line shouldn't be used for this, because it has a constantly varying fuel pressure that will actually get lower the harder the engine is being pushed.

 

^ ok, I coulda swore I heard that people used the return line for wet kits, but your reasoning makes sense.

 

I'm sure that people do use it. It's just a bad idea. :-P