Have a read of this. Darn fine idea I reckon... Brad HALLETT Ipswich, Qld ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <Craig Oakes> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 5:14 PM Subject: FW: For the rev-heads > > > > > This is a great story of Saturday Afternoon fun by a Candaian Auto magazine. > ********************************************* > > Ever want to nitrous your ride, but were afraid you'd grenade your > mega-dollar motor into smithereens, or trash your daily driver? > Well,fear no more. For the measly sum of $19.95, we can absolutely guarantee > that you won't blow YOUR motor. How? Heh heh heh. Just rent a car from your > local, smiling Thrifty agent. His motor + your nitrous system = no problem. > Experience the thrill of nitrous, totally uninhibited. > No longer will you feel the urge to back off because you're afraid of > scattering YOUR dollars along the side of the road or at the strip. It's > like hot fudge sundaes without the guilt. > Mopar Action's staff, the same people who brought you the Rental Car Nats > and the famous "push-o-war" (nose-to-nose burnouts), are out on a brief > furlough from Nurse Ratchet's psycho ward, and will outdo themselves again > by showing you how to knock over 3 seconds off a bone stock Neon. Yeah, you > got it! 16.90 @ 81MPH to a zero-traction 13.82 @ 102. Have we got > chrome-moly spheres, or what? > We slammed together a supersimple N2O system for our bone stock 3-speed > automatic rent-a-Neon (with 13-inch wheels!) consisted of readily available > parts from the NOS nitrous catalog and the local NAPA parts store. Our goal > was to make no engine mods and unbolt nothing from the car during > installation. In other words, we wanted to be smarter than O.J., and leave > no incriminating evidence behind (is America a great country, or what?) > The system consisted of an N20 tank held in the back seat by the lap and > shoulder belt, a length of braided hose laying on the carpet, and routed > through the unused clutch-cable firewall hole, the cheapest electric fuel > pump we could find, nitrous and fuel solenoids and two simple injectors. The > injectors consisted of nothing more than two short lengths of 3/16" brake > line tubing with the solenoids attached at one end and 2 NOS-modified "AN" > fittings that accept NOS nitrous and fuel-metering jets on the other end. > A painless incision into the soft plastic air box hose allowed N2O and fuel > to be injected directly bove the throttle body. The whole deal was held in > place by duct tape and cable ties. > Replaceable jets allowed precision tuning of the system to any level of > insanity desired. > Auxiliary fuel (alcohol "drygas") was stored in the windshield washer > reservoir and the small electric pump was added to supply fuel (the > windshield wiper fluid pump will not supply enough fuel) to a solenoid. This > setup was rigged into the horn wiring to open the solenoids when you punch > the horn button (we did disconnect the horn button). > So how did it work? Awesome. Simply awesome. We started out with a 50HP > nitrous jet with 100% excess fuel. Hitting the horn at 4000RPM in 2nd gear > felt like 15 lbs of boost. Were we happy? > Nope! Onward to the 75HP jet and only 50% excess fuel. The Neon was amazing. > We worked up the guts for 1800 RPM launches in first gear. Oops out of > nitrous, before you can say: "Thrifty." > Luckily, we had brought a second bottle. > The entire Mopar Action staff flogged the Neon mercilessly, but we couldn't > break it (yet). The high (low?)point came when "Crazy" Eddie Yeznaian, > intrepid rally racer and wildebeest extraordinaire, actually power-braked > the car to the floor, cut the wheel to the left, and hit the nitrous in > reverse. Nothin' like nitrous doughnuts after a hard day at the office! > (Since this was done in the rain, does that make it Dunkin' Donuts?) If you > can imagine what it must be like to be trapped in a spinning top at 200RPM, > you get the idea. Where are the air-sickness bags for this ride? > H-E-L-L-L-P! > After the second full 10 pound bottle of nitrous had been greedily > half-guzzled by the motor, we decided to go for broke before it was empty. > We slipped in the killer 150HP jets. Is this sick, or what? We more than > doubled the stock HP output! Jeeez! 13.82 @ 102mph. The motor took first > gear launches at 2000RPM with cylinder pressures that should have shot the > plugs through the hood, and exhaust gas temps that were slightly hotter than > the surface of the sun. > Could the Neon go faster? And, mainly, would the converter stay in the > transaxle, or launch like a Saturn rocket and slice our legs off at the > knees? (And, do they rent hand-control Neons?) For our last runs of the day, > we leaned out the fuel jet for only 5% excess fuel and stuck our guinea pig > editor, Cliff "Pleeeeease don't blow the motor, guys!" Gromer behind the > wheel. > For his first duel, Cliff matched himself up with an automatic Mustang GT at > the track. The pony car came out of the shoot even with the Neon, and pulled > ahead by the 300-ft mark. The Neon, now in second, gets juiced by Gromer. > Result? Like taking candy from a baby. Cliff's little rent-a-PL was so far > out on the 'Stang that he was able to back off in third, turning a 14.15 at > 96.7. > Later, in an impromptu street run from a 10mph roll-on, Cliff, the sick > puppy that he is, hit the horn button in first gear, right on the "3" count, > the 2-liter Twinkie motor screamed for mercy, the tires spun all the way > through first gear. We were fender to fender with a fast 440-6 Challenger > R/T. He ripped his piston-grip to second, but we pulled ahead. Clifford > boiled the tires big-time into second gear, allowing the R/T to pull > alongside. The Neon mini-motor wound tight-right to the rev limiter. Did > Cliff lift? Did he back off? No chance! Ka-boom! A glowing three-foot > fireball barked out of each side of the hood, and rolled back over the > windshield. Cheeez! This actually caused the R/T driver to lift, but not > Cliff! Wow. Say goodbye to Neon. > We pulled over, fully expecting to see rods hanging out of the > block. Surprise. Only the airbox is blown apart. With the leaned > out fuel system and the motor running so far into the rev limiter > that the stock injectors were shut completely off, we must a > floated the valves and backfired through the intake > system. The motor was running a little rough (a slight > understatement) and we're sure we bent at least one valve, or, more likely, > blew the head off of a couple. Needless to say it was the best $19.95 we > ever spent. We gassed the Neon back up and limped back to the ever-smiling > counterperson. > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.datascribe.com.au/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.datascribe.com.au/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
