Thread: solenoid failure

Now I have heard once in a while that if you leave your nitrous/fuel solenoids hooked up to the intake tract that the gasoline vapors cause nitrous solenoids to fail. Has anyone expirenced this problem before?

That really isn't a problem with them. The problem I've had is too much nitrous pressure can freeze the nitrous solenoid. I've had them freeze closed and open lol. Closed is ok, the nitrous kit just sprays fuel, open causes the nitrous to spray into the motor constantly regardless of what else is happening.

How often have this happenens???

and why does it happenns? anyway i can prevent this from ever happening?

If you're bottle is filled correctly you won't have any problems. I was WAY overfilling mine, so that it would last longer. Problem was, as said, too much presssure can freeze up the solenoids lol. I don't put quite as much into my bottles anymore.

So my 10lbs bottle weigths about 26lbs when is full Is that sound rigth or is it been overfilled????

That's good. That's where I put mine at now. It's a tad more than 10lbs, but just enough to give you better pressure for a slightly longer period. I used to run mine up to 28lbs lol.

AH ok, I went to the strip this past weekend and used a .043 nos jet and ran the fastest ET with the G20 so far 14.4 @ 98mph. I lower the timing to like 6 dgrees BTDC and ran some crazy octane booster, I did not had knock issues or signs on my plugs. I think with a little more timing I could run better but I dont like to take chances

Get some slicks and practice alot before you change anything else. Part of the fun of it, is learning to run faster without changing anything, just driving better. I've literally made thousands of passes at the drag strip in my car.

Only thing the more passes I'll do the more nitrous refills, nitrous is not as cheap as I thougth it would. Cheap and easy installation compared to a Turbocharger kit.

Yeah you're right, but it's worth it.