Ok this may sound dumb but I am looking to get my nitrous system pretty soon and just want to make sure I have every thing figured out about it. Ok I am not going to get an automatic bottle opener b/c I am mainly only going to shoot at the track. Ok can I drive around with my bottle turned on for an hour or so up to the races or can I only turn it on right before im going to race. Will it leak or will I lose nitrous with having it on an hour before using it. Also I am going to get the ZEX kit with the purge kit, bottle heater, manifold/gauge, colder plugs and plug wires. How do I work the purge kit? Is it a switch or button I use to activate it and am I supposed to use it before racing and after I turn the bottle off to clear the lines. Also is the bottle heater a switch I use or is it always on. Any information or detailed guide lines with nitrous would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

yea u can turn it on a hour b4 or so.. just make sure u seal it with teflon paste.. so u dont leak

 

I have a Nitrous Express kit. You can have the bottle on while you drive, it won't leak as long as none of your fittings leak. I would drive around with the bottle on for a couple of hours and it didn't leak - just DON'T forget to turn it off when you park it. The purge kit is used to purge all of the air out of the nitrous line so that before you race, you are getting all nitrous and no air. The purge is hooked up to a momentary switch, you just hit it twice after your burnout to clear the line. I don't know about how a Zex bottle heater works but my NX heater came w/ a solenoid which senses bottle pressure and turns the heater off when the bottle pressure reaches like 900 to 1000 psi. It turns it back on when the pressure drops back down. Good luck and have fun!

 

Do not roll around with your bottle open. You will **** up your seals. It won't be right away, but over time they will deform if you have 1000 psi of pressure on them for hours at a time.
You can spot the idiots that do this because when ever they spray nothing but black smoke shoots out of their tailpipe.

Purge kits are nothing but a simple circuit. You connect a wire to a switched 12V power source(aka your fuse box), run the wire to a push-button(momentary) switch, run a wire from there to the purge noid, and run a wire from the noid to a grounding point. Make absolutely sure that you use a momentary switch. If not you'll eventually hit the button when your bottle is closed and not notice that you are frying your purge noid. Having smoke come in through your vents and putting out an underhood fire is not a fun thing to do. Trust me.

I'm assuming that you'll be smart and get a speedshop.org pressure regulated bottle heater. What you do is turn the heater on and it will regulate itself according to the bottle's pressure.
Check the Zex page to get install instructions. It's an easy install.

 

hey, with the bottle openers can you use the NOS opener with the NX bottle?