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Originally Posted by Jime

Timing has always caused any problems I had with nitrous. Without timing control race gas is a necessity. My old setup included a 1 gal cell, pump etc with 116 feeding just the nitrous. Worked well but added a lot of additional parts and circuitry and you know me "keep it simple stupid". Now its just a 255 pump with the fpr at the tank for a single feed line and dual feed rail.

I remember your fuel cell setup - scary complicated stuff, so I didn't copy it... I installed another new Walbro HP 255lph pump, a 120Watt regulated power supply to run it, a huge CNC Aeromotive 800HP filter, a custom fuel distribution manifold and new Aeromotive shunt FPR, and dual fuel lines to the rails. At least this combination delivers fuel. For the new engine, it will be dual Walbros.

Have you decided what you will be using for engine management yet? Sticking with the stock 4th Gen ECU will work but with all the stuff going into that engine I though you might go stand-alone. If I had it to do all over again I would probably go Megasquirt just to have something to play with and give me a challenge. Down the road my next project will probably be an Revup engine with a CVT setup and Uprev or Cobb for tuning. Thats when I get sick of my current setup and I still have a few things to try out yet.

I haven't decided anything yet. I've been concentrating on getting all systems to work right on my existing beater 3.5 - kinda laying some groundwork for the next engine. I really don't want to replace all the wiring and ECU from a 2002-up car or a stand-alone - I just don't have that much spare time. I like the features of the UTEC, but it requires the 3.5 flywheel timing, and I can't have both.

Anxious to see you get your new engine going, its going to be a handful. Any idea yet when it will make its debut?

About the new engine - it's got a great built short block, and I've got some fine heads and cams from Cosworth, (about $6,000 worth) but those parts have - some problems. Serious problems. I'm giving their California office another week to resolve them, then I'll have to make everything public. This is really disappointing, because I have everything I need here and it would be together by now. Sigh. I think this will get messy. I hope not.

Was a little disappointed in the number of cars racing at MAXUS 09, was hoping for a lot more. It was a pretty easy field except for the Nissan All Motor Unlimited and Aaron. It was pretty hot and my cooling system quit after my first run and was leaking water. I finally got one of the fans working at low speed and tied a rag around the cooling hose leak but temps were still way over 200 and I had to wring out the wrag after each run to keep from dripping all over the track. Probably shouldn't have ran at all, it was a recipe for disaster being 600 miles from home. It turned out to be a severed low speed fan signal wire to the ECU which prevented any fan activity.

We're all glad you did make it home - although you would have had a lot of help if you needed it, I'm sure. I personally won't go to a drag strip unless I tow there. When you go out a lot, you break the car a lot... Having Maxus 09 on the east coast guaranteed that some racers would show up, but serious Maxima racers are really scarce in the US of A. Maybe we racers need our own Maximum Maxus somewhere central for the racers interested in showing up.