Fabrication New Nitrous Bottle Water Heater April 16, 2015 / January 4, 2016 by John Heard fter many years of loading and unloading my home made Igloo Nitrous Bottle Heater from the truck bed at the track, I finally decided to make a new one that mounts permanently in the trailer. I didn’t have enough room for the bigger igloo setup so this narrower aluminum one will be really nice to have. Kurt Riffle from Riffle Motorsports had an old tank he had laying around since he used to run Nitrous and I talked him into modifying it a little for what I was wanting to do. He added some additional drain bungs, and a pad to mount a snap action safety temperature switch to the side. That safety switch is something I’ve been wanting after witnessing a controller malfunction due to a bad sensor and stay on causing the bath to get too hot, obviously that would be a very bad situation with nitrous bottles that we want to avoid. Read more » Bottle Heater Nitrous Water Tank
Fabrication New Omron Nitrous Switch Mount October 15, 2010 / December 17, 2016 by John Heard One of the things I really wanted to fix on the car is a problem that occurred far too often, and cost me several rounds of racing. It's those little cheap carb microswitches for nitrous activation, which seem to act up at the worst possible time. I've fought those things far too much with issues like vibration, loose connections, or intermittent contacts. Read more » Nitrous Nova Throttle Switch
