Removing Nitrous bottles... - Honda Prelude Forum

AsianPersuasion · 10-20-2003, 06:56 PM

I ask this question because of a concern I have for when I autox. Nitrous bottles are not allowed on site during autox... meaning even if I don't spray, I'm still not allowed to carry the bottle in my car... so I'll have to pull the bottle out before I go to the autox.

So basically my question is... does the bottle have to be empty prior to removing it? Or is there just some shut off valve so I can take the bottle in and out of the car whenever I want?

Thanks in advance,
Jeremy

red98lude · 10-20-2003, 08:15 PM

The bottle has vavle that opens and closes it. Takes about 2 seconds to remove it from the car.

laughin2.2 · 10-20-2003, 09:28 PM

Close valve, wrap something around the open end of the line and the open end of the bottle. Then take the bottle out.

AsianPersuasion · 10-20-2003, 11:08 PM

neato... gracias my laughing amigo

axion68 · 10-20-2003, 11:40 PM

also, you want to make sure you have that valve closed when the nitrous is hooked up to the car and you aren't using it, as your solenoids will still leak some out. I don't like to keep my bottle open for more than 15 minutes or so, it also saves wear on the solenoids.

AsianPersuasion · 10-21-2003, 02:02 PM

^^^ good to know

axion68 · 10-21-2003, 02:41 PM

and one more thing, solenoid based remote openers will leak nitrous too. So if you are in the market for a remote bottle opener a mechanical one has some advantages, though it costs a little more.

red98lude · 10-21-2003, 07:51 PM

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Originally posted by axion68
and one more thing, solenoid based remote openers will leak nitrous too. So if you are in the market for a remote bottle opener a mechanical one has some advantages, though it costs a little more.

The leak isn't too bad though. Wreckdiver had his main solenoids fail and used his solenoid controlled bottle opener to cut nitrous flow to the engine, still uses it, and has no problems with it.

AsianPersuasion · 10-23-2003, 12:35 PM

Who makes a mechanical bottle opener??? how expensive is it and how does it work??? If you could provide a site that'd be awesome.

red98lude · 10-23-2003, 01:52 PM

zex and nx both make mechanical openers that fir over the valve. I think they are about $250.