Damn the luck!!

[FirehawkNS]

The buddy of mine with the 01 cobra spraying a 100 wet shot had his motor go out on him Monday. The crazy thing was he was just driving it (not hard, just cruizing with traffic), when it started knocking (hadn't sprayed in about 3 months). Took it to the dealer and #5 and #3 cylinders have 0 pressure. They said that the rings were fried and the block was warped.

Now I have all my friends going, "yea, you better take off that nitrous before you end up like him" and "see what that nitrous does. DOes it everytime" I have to listen to this now. Now we are trying to figure out if it was the 1 bottle of nitrous (tuned to run pretty rich, also a wet shot) could have led to this directly (we figured it didn't help), or was it that one time about a year and a half ago when he borrowed a kit (150 wet shot) and the solenoid locked up spraying.

Makes me a little nervous, but I don't really spray that much so I figured My 100 dry (tuned) shot shouldn't hurt much as long as I don't run lean or anything!!

I'm just tired of hearing everybodies mouth about it. I need some success stories please!!! :D

[GM Muscle]

I wouldn't worry if I were you. I don't think many LS1 owners have blown up on a dry 100 shot. As for the people who tell you that you will blow up with nitrous, there mostly dumb asses that don't know the first thing about it. Next time they tell you that you'll cook your motor, just say that it's replacable and act like it's no big deal. They usaully don't have a come back for that one . :)

[DebianDog]

It has been two years. I am still waiting... :p

[GOT SPD]

Sounds like your freinds don't have a clue what they are talking about. Nitrous is you friend, respect it and you won't have many problems.

As for the cobra, if the rings are fried then it sounds like it leaned out, and I don't buy they comment that it hadn't been sprayed fro 3 months. The failure would have happened while on the bottle and he would know about it immediatly.

[FirehawkNS]

Originally posted by GOT SPD
Sounds like your freinds don't have a clue what they are talking about. Nitrous is you friend, respect it and you won't have many problems.

As for the cobra, if the rings are fried then it sounds like it leaned out, and I don't buy they comment that it hadn't been sprayed fro 3 months. The failure would have happened while on the bottle and he would know about it immediatly.

YEa, the ones running there mouth don't know very much about (well, much of anything), but they think they know alot about everything. Put it this way, one hooked up nitrous on his truck so he could just purge it while crusing. Border line ricers!! lol

As far as him spraying, the bottle is empty!! So I know he hasn't been spraying. He found out it was about empty at the dyno day 3 months ago (he didn't want to spray untill the NA was tuned right, so he didn't bother with the bottle). But even when he was spraying on the dyno he had an a/f of 11.5 NA, and 11.2 on spray (since his bottle was empty he borrowed mine for testing). He had some tuning issues na with it running way too rich. But he had a fellow cobra driver give him a hint to why his computer was running him rich, and why the diablo was getting errors when they were trying to dyno tune it. There was a ground disconnected. There was an issue with the wire breaking in half because of its location against the metal wall of the computer. He fixed that and said that it ran better then it ever did and that he was going to have his bottle refilled next week. This happened 2 days after he fixed the wire.

Do you think the computer ran it too lean and it did it?

Or was it the one time a year and a half ago when we are pretty sure it ran lean since the solenoid locked up (fuel shutoff, nitrous still spraying)? Would it take that long of hard running for it to give out?

[GOT SPD]

When a piston burns you generally know it right away. I am curious as to what the wire went to and what was warped on the block. FOr the block itself to get warped it seems that it would have to get really hot(i.e. overheat) but who knows. Did he have an blown head gaskets?

[FirehawkNS]

Well, I have given some misinformation!! I talked to my buddy, and the guys saying the block is warped are just guessing. They said they had looked at it, but he was there the whole time and they just cranked it up and said that it had lost compression and that it was fried. They did not do any of that. It is just people exaggerating the situation becuase they have it made up in there mind that it was the nitrous!! Having more compatent people look at it and we are thinking spun bearing. The wire was the main ground for the ECU. So before we found the wire, the cars A/f was around 9:1. When he got the ground back on we think it might have gone super lean. Maybe the ECU was messed up and by plugging the ground back in it caused that. But we will see when we get into the motor!!

[GOT SPD]

It is easy to misdiagnose the problems when you don't know what you are looking for. SOunds like he needs to take it to some people that have worked on a car before. ;)

[FirehawkNS]

Originally posted by GOT SPD
It is easy to misdiagnose the problems when you don't know what you are looking for. SOunds like he needs to take it to some people that have worked on a car before. ;)

You damn right. The one guy is going around telling everybody that he fucked up his car becuase of the nitrous, and that he did all these checks and shit on it to prove it. Travis was standing there the whole time they were looking at the car and they didn't even do anything, but pop the hood and rev it a little.

It is going to a shop next Monday to some guys who really work on motors. All I can say is a sweet create motor will be there then and waiting for a new home!! :D