Bottle pressure control and more pics

[04snake]

The interior and trunk is mostly back together, bottle is mounted at a 30* angle and I just got the NX Fire&Ice controller so that is the last of the pieces for the trunk and it is starting to look bad ass. I think I found a spot for the controller, not sure:




The fan looks like it is right off of a PC's CPU!



I got to see the entire SpeedHut custom made gauges lit up, I was so blown away I took some pictures with all the lights out in the garage. The green perfectly matches the SVT ones, although the illuminated needles are much brighter, but I think that will help me to know what is going on with center cluster, without having to focus on them or move my eyes directly to them. Yup I was so excited I left the frikin flash on when snapping pics in the dark and didn't figure out they would not show up like at night until I got home? what a putz! Well I'll have to try again for the money night time shots but here is the best of what I took today:



These gauges not only look good but they are programmable, the button is to set upper and/or lower thesholds to trigger a VERY bright red warning light. Someone asked what that was for and I completely forgot it was so long ago when I ordered them, but they weren't cheap so they are full function.




My magic black box is wired in now to reprogram the Cruise Control. When you flip the "CC ARM" switch my cruise control becomes a momentary switch for my LINE LOCK! thats right, not only can auto's launch off of a footbrake, but so can I with my stick! I roll up to the beams, arm my CC, touch the brake about 1/2 way, not a full pump like for burnouts, put my left thumb on the CC button on the stock steeringwheel, now I am holding the car on the front brakes with my thumb! Now I have one foot for the clutch and one for the go pedal, I then will release the clutch enough to push the car forward to pre-stage. Then with the clutch all the way up with no play I will light the second light, stomp the gas to pull the rpms up to the 2 stage limit of 5500 and with the clutch heating up and the front suspension actually loaded I release my thumb and clutch on the 3rd yellow and hold the F on.

I went with a rather large purge button to help when I have gloves on. I will always do a quick purge right after the burnout because the way it is wired, the purge will only work if the NOS systems are armed, so I will still have a chance to reach down and flip the NOS arming system, if I blip the purge and nothing happens:



When attempting to attach the E-brake, they didn't have enough slack to be attached to the new lowers, so a couple L brackets were required to be fabbed up:




Just a couple more things left to do like installing the underneath style anti-roll bar I just ordered from Miller Race Cars (yeah the same guys who lost on Pinks), a super sweet setup that will be welded to the Moser case and is specific for Stangs, the FRPP hood pins, the rear seat delete using matching carpet that just arrived, the bottle heater and controller has to be wired in and a blow down tube installed & vented outside of the trunk and finally a solution to the mufflers/tail pipes. The trick StainlessWorks mufflers barely fit in the body opening in front of the yoke but come too far back to allow room for a bend up over the axles, so I need to find a shorter high flow muffler or I will have to go with bullets.



I can almost smell the burnout box now!

[George C]

nice

[Viper_ed]

It just keeps looking better and better!

As a sugesstion, why not mount the Fire & Ice controller in the front of the car somewhere where you can keep an eye on it. For the Ultra cool look, you could mount the box behind the radio delete plate and relocate the lights fom the box across the top of the radio delete plate in a left to right fashion. Then it will be displayed up front with the rest of your gauges and if there is a loss of pressure, you'll light not flashing will tell you right away.

[04snake]

It just keeps looking better and better!

As a sugesstion, why not mount the Fire & Ice controller in the front of the car somewhere where you can keep an eye on it. For the Ultra cool look, you could mount the box behind the radio delete plate and relocate the lights fom the box across the top of the radio delete plate in a left to right fashion. Then it will be displayed up front with the rest of your gauges and if there is a loss of pressure, you'll light not flashing will tell you right away.

That would sort of defeat the purpose of having the contoller taking care of watching the pressure while I am concentrating on getting prepared for a pass. I see what you are saying and had that same thought, but my thinking was I have a pressure gauge in the center console already, and that can be programmed with a low and high pressure warning light to tip me off to not arm the NOS for whatever reason. When you really need to pay attention to the pressure is when waiting to get called from the pits, in between runs and with the contoller in the back I can monitor how my bottle is doing without having to peek inside the car and turn the key on to get a NOS pressure reading. the way everything is wired nothing but the IC pump and the NOS heater controller with operate without the key on. Many times I will have to put the charger on the battery so I can run the IC pump which will drawn a pretty good amount of current so either myself or a crew member will be monitoring what is going on in the trunk so that was why I thought that would be the best place for the controller.

Can you see my logic? It doesn't matter that the pigtail is short, you are correct we could have easily mounted it inside but I am trying to keep the inside the interior distractions to a minimum so I can focus on looking down the track, steering and shifting.

[Viper_ed]

Gotcha Stu!

You got crew members now? You must of been jealous of Lou's Pit Bitch Frankie!

[coralcoupe1993]

Very nice! I want one!

[shawnsvtcobra]

Very nice Stu, wish this damn winter would leave so ya can get to it.

[04snake]

Gotcha Stu!

You got crew members now? You must of been jealous of Lou's Pit Bitch Frankie!

yeah my crew member is my better half, and she makes ME pay for everyday she spends at the track packing ice into my IC box, checking weather conditions and logging all that, running a video camera and keeping a checklist off all the things that I would forget on a regular basis. I couldn't pay anyone enough money to put up with my lame ass and not sure why she puts up with me.

[Viper_ed]

and not sure why she puts up with me.

Why do any of them put up with us? Guess paying the bills must be worth something?

[coralcoupe1993]

Why do any of them put up with us? Guess paying the bills must be worth something?

Im just gald mine has a Mustang! Actualy, I dont think I have had a woman with out one!

[87notch]

Sweet!!!