nitrous need info please
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08-'09-'17
Necessary items: Window switch, bottle heater, purge and as I found out the hard way... an aluminum intake. I would highly recommend going with one of the aluminum intakes(I saw professional products just came out with one for the LS2) because in my ZO6 the nitrous backfired in the intake and the plastic intake exploded and my car caught fire. You may have seen the video of my Yellow ZO6. The aluminum intake would be cheap insurance to prevent from totalling the car in the event that it does backfire.
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '06
expecting an explosion....
I do not think I would do nitrous to expect an explosion. I can only assume that there was a pilot error on the C5. The reason they do a plastic manifold or a fast intake composite is to avoid heat which equals lack of power. So we have alot of success stories and one explosion anything else on this topic
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You are absolutely right, I am not trying to discourage the use of nitrous. I absolutely loved it while it worked. It was obviously a malfunction in my system(as I said, I used it without a problem for over a year and countless track runs), but since then I have not let any of my friends run nitrous without an aluminum intake because it is better to be safe than sorry. The Professional Products aluminum intake is $400 and that is cheap insurance to me.
I have no problems with nitrous(hell, it got me a new C6!) I just thought I would share my experience(I wished that someone had warned me of what could happen, after mine blew up I had a bunch of people tell me that they had seen them explode on dyno's before) and I know that I am not the only one to have had a problem with a composite manifold. I saw a GTO have the manifold explode half way down the track at US-41 a few months back.
I have no problems with nitrous(hell, it got me a new C6!) I just thought I would share my experience(I wished that someone had warned me of what could happen, after mine blew up I had a bunch of people tell me that they had seen them explode on dyno's before) and I know that I am not the only one to have had a problem with a composite manifold. I saw a GTO have the manifold explode half way down the track at US-41 a few months back.
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '06
point well taken
You are absolutely right, I am not trying to discourage the use of nitrous. I absolutely loved it while it worked. It was obviously a malfunction in my system(as I said, I used it without a problem for over a year and countless track runs), but since then I have not let any of my friends run nitrous without an aluminum intake because it is better to be safe than sorry. The Professional Products aluminum intake is $400 and that is cheap insurance to me.
I have no problems with nitrous(hell, it got me a new C6!) I just thought I would share my experience(I wished that someone had warned me of what could happen, after mine blew up I had a bunch of people tell me that they had seen them explode on dyno's before) and I know that I am not the only one to have had a problem with a composite manifold. I saw a GTO have the manifold explode half way down the track at US-41 a few months back.
I have no problems with nitrous(hell, it got me a new C6!) I just thought I would share my experience(I wished that someone had warned me of what could happen, after mine blew up I had a bunch of people tell me that they had seen them explode on dyno's before) and I know that I am not the only one to have had a problem with a composite manifold. I saw a GTO have the manifold explode half way down the track at US-41 a few months back.
I am not going to use it at a track so the use will be for the a few street races
I am hoping that the law of averages does not catch up with me as well. I will think about the fast intake with burst spots as an option as stated up above by spin
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From: FLANAGAN IL
I have a complete drive by wire for the LS2 system from NOS Systems at the shop if any one is interested I would sell for $600 it lists for $950 I got it from my wife befor I decided to go with the Procharger system. Brand new never opened. give me a call 815 796 2772 or pm me thanks
