Yes, Cometic makes head gaskets. They also make a new progressive controller. Looks to have impressive features. It requires a laptop to set up. At about $260, the price is excellent. I'm new to the nitrous game, but after a few tries with a 100 shot on a 10.0 second 9" tire car, progressive ma...

This does sound like a nice product. Since it keeps the bottle enclosed in a controlled environment, it needs less power to run. One of the problems I see with a standard heater is heat transfer to the bottle. It has to be rather inneficient. I also have a street car, no trialer or truck. And can se...

Ron, I have run the Hoosier 9" x 30" radial slicks on both my Buick Stocker and Super Stocker since 1996 with excellent results. I run them on either a 9" or 10" rim and do not go below 22# of air. If track is real tight I run 24#. I also rotate them every race (5-6 runs) as it ...

We have 3 turbo cars that make runs. The leader, and the co-founder of our organization runs consistand 9.0's with an 8.99 best. On drag radials...although our rules allow 10" slicks in what we call True Street. The reason he hasn't won all the races are due to small issues he seems to have wit...

Forgot to mention tire pressure. I usually run these at 16psi. When it shook bad first pass, I upped it to 17.5. A little better. Should have tried 20. But I was trying to win the race, so I couldn't mess with too many things. Should have won it too.....but runner up was just fine. Our heads up prog...

Another Ron with a Nova...hmmmmm I'm on my second set of the radial slicks. First set lasted an entire season.....then when I came out for the next season, they were dead. So got the new ones and the car was perfect. Maybe you are correct. Maybe I have more than 40 passes on them....I have to admit ...

Hey guys,
I'm running 9x30 Hoosier Radial slicks. Same tires most of the stock elim guys use.
They aren't drag radials.
I change tires at the track.

Thanks,

Ron

Thanks Stroker. Bottle pressure was the same both races, right at 950 psi. I have a bottle warmer. Timing identical. retard box that activates on the hit. I never mess with the timing. 34 degrees on the bottle. It's only a 100 shot. Tires have about 40 passes. There was only one week between the 2 t...

Hey guys, Ron here. A week or so ago, I posted in the Nitrous section my results on my one and only nitrous pass. 100 shot, my local track, street legal night (minimal track prep) and the car responded with a 9.53 against a normal NA pass of 10.10 or so. Car 60'd well at 1.37. Didn't feel it spin, b...

Camaro mounts lower the car....raise the spring into the chassis.
Nova mounts raise the car.....
Ron

Well said John,

Thanks.

Ron

I increased all the wiring right up to the solenoids to 12GA. Gnd is also a short 12GA right to my ground stud on the frame. Voltage increase from where I was ended up to be .9V. So now only a .4V drop from the system voltage. I do run an alternator. E=I*R So call E the 1.3.V drop I had. "I&quo...

This post sort of died. But....I got everything resolved and finally made a nitrous pass last night. My first ever. With a 100 shot, the car picked up 6 tenths and 9mph. So, went from a 10.12 @ 131.5 to a 9.53 @ 140.5 Only got the one pass, it was a busy night. But what a rush! Pump gas, and I drove...

Well, Edelbrock tells me that I'll need at least 13V at the solenoid to activate it at 1000 or so PSI. I'll need to figure out where any voltage loss is occuring and try to fix that. One problem will be if the wiring supplied for the solenoids and relay is part of the voltage drop. It's only 16 GA w...

What's the voltage at the solenoid? How do you have them grounded? Low voltage or a poor ground could be causing them to not open. I was talking to a guy yesterday that burnt up 4 engines before they discovered that their voltage was dropping so much during a pass that their fuel solenoids were shu...