How long will my 6.0 LQ9 engine hold up with a 50 shot compared to 100 shot.
How many times will I be able to hit the button?

 

Depends on alot of things......

If you have the kit set up the right way you should get alot out of it.....I am sure Parish will chime in soon. He is the Nitrous GOD!

 

As long as you have enough fuel to keep a good mixture a 50-100 shot on a stock motor is no problem. Keep an eye on bottle pressure (850-1050psi) and get a WOT activation switch as well as a Fuel Pressure cutoff switch. Also I'd run a larger inline pump too.

I've used lots of nitrous in the past in my Small Ford days (well faster Small Ford days) and I know assloads about them.

Nitrous is basically a supercharger in a bottle. The nitrous itself don't make the power, it needs the extra fuel to be powerful. The nitrous is mixed with oxygen to allow a somewhat safe transportation of it and it usage.

Be smart with it and enjoy the power.

 

this is my dalydriver. will this be ok to use on the street a few stop lights in a row. also i would take my truck to the track. so is nitrous the way to go for my or since i would be spraying alot on the street would this be bad for the truck and would a S/C be better.

 

Nitrous GOD Parish8 is planning on throwing as much nitrous at that little truck as it will take, and up the jets again. He does have a couple of things going for him: no worries since he has a new motor coming, Autotap and a wideband to watch it vital signs, and good luck with motors (bad luck with transmssions).

Oxidizer would be a good example of someone who had been running nitrous for a couple of years on his 5.3 truck, a 150 shot I think. He's just careful not to run lean and everythings held together for him.

jnash- to answer your original question: if you have everything setup correctly, you should be able to run a 50 shot forever. Thats just big enough to wake your truck up. A 100 shot will last a long time too if you keep its use to a minimum. The trans will last if you don't spray off the line and hit the button after its moving. BUT, its a blast spraying off the line and a 100 - 150 shot feels soooo good.

I ran a 100 shot mostly on the street for a long time with no issues. I'd up the jets to a 125 at the track. I have my SS set up for a 100 right now and am not worried.

 

Jnash- Think about it this way, my Radix is giving me about 125-150 extra HP, so in terms of engine and transmission abuse, this is pretty close to spraying that much off the line.

 

i always thought that sprayin off the line wasn't good because the rpm's weren't high enough, unless you have a torque converter. Does the engine get enough gas when you spray at low rpms?

 

The sudden increase in input torque should make your stock converter flash stall higher. To at least 2000rpms. Most don't due to traction problems.

The added fuel is done via the FP reg or from the rail

 

nitrous GOD , not me, i haven't ran over a 100shot on anything, ever.

i can speak about the strength of the 6.0, i hit mine with 8psi and a 75shot MANY times and it still ran strong the day i pulled it out. that has to be alot worse on the motor than just a 100shot.

if you don't run lean i would say the motor would last many years with running a 100shot on the weekends. problem is you always want more, you end up spraying out of the hole cause it feels so good, then you up it to a 125shot, then more then more.

i am geting set up to run a 200+shot on my motor but not on the 4.8, i was going to see how far the 4.8 would go but since i am geting a motor too i can't hold back and have to drop it in. i will be running a stock lq4(50,000miles i think), 3400stall, 200+shot, 4l80e. last week at the track the lowly 4.8 went from a 16.2 NA down to a 13.48 with a 100shot.

 

If you think about nitrous, you are spraying a constant 100 shot at all rpms. That 100 shot is just a certain amount of fuel and nitrous dispensed during a given amount of time (grams or ounces or whatever). In the low rpms, each cylinder would be filling up with more nitrous per rotation than at higher rpms. Your would have 3 times more nitrous per cylinder at 2000 rpms than at 6000 rpms. If you think about it that way, spraying at low rpms is not good.