I don't think the gains on a na car are worth it at all. The benefits on a boosted application come from the cooling properties as well as the additional timing you can run with it engaged. .
Again, it depends if that N/A car has stock compression or not. Lower octane is an added benefit for a stk. N/A car, and increased gas mileage if you use our MPG/MAX kit. But for the most part, you're correct, it works wonders with power adders.
I used it with a kb 4v. As orange said, its definitely something to be cautious about. If your tune is aggressive and the meth pump fails kaboom. .
As with any performance setup, you need a failsafe, and ours is Safe Injection. It can either reduce boost levels or reduce total timing up to 15 degrees.
I can say that the meth injection line that my snow performance kit used was cracked when I got the car. .
Sorry to hear that but our nylon tubing is very durable. It has a working pressure of 400psi and a burst pressure of 1200psi. It's the same stuff used in commercial trucking application, and on high pressure air bag systems.
The only way I found out was by having the car dyno tuned and it came pouring out from under the car when the tuner hit boost and it activated. Fortunately I had only been running 5psi before the tune and it wasn't a big deal. Its not like with nitrous and you can purge, there really isn't much way to tell if its working or not. .
Safe Injection, and/or a flow gauge.
I had a low fluid level light to indicate when my meth reservior was low on fluid, and also I had a light that would activate to indicate when my meth injection pump was activated. .
Like I mentioned above, the light is for what is being commanded.
However there would be no warning if the line cracked or the flow was cutoff after the pump. .
Safe Injection, it retails for $176.00. Very surprised because the pump doesn't stop the fluid. Fluid can flow straight thru the pump. So if you had a crack after the pump, all the fluid would drain out the tank and thru the pump.
As a precaution, I did have my iat sensor relocated the the intake manifold, post blower, which gave me precise iats for the engine to pull timing when it got hot, which with the non-intercooled kb was basically all the time. .
Measuring air temperature is another way of doing it but a flow meter aka Safe Injection works way faster, and that's important.
I had a heads up display which told me current iat temperature and mine would rise to 200 degrees on a hot day when I hit boost, usually when the meth turned on it would drop about 50 degrees, however as soon as I was out of boost and the meth deactivated, it would rise right back up. Gotta realize if its your only method of intercooling its more of a on/off switch and you will still get heat soaked..
Correct. But we also have a Stage 3 MPG/MAX system which will inject a small amount of fluid to help increase gas mileage and reduce some of the heat soak.
I never had any issues with my setup after I fixed the cracked line. I can say that mine would drip, I think it would leak whatever meth was left in the line after the car was shut off, and it corroded my metal CAI tube so I had to clean the tube occasionally. .
Sorry to hear that but our new nozzles have an internal check valve so they shouldn't leak.
My snow performance meth kit was several years old though, maybe now they have some nicer features, I havent looked into them in a while. I heard some other brands made better kits, but thats all I have personal experience with. I would have preferred a traditional intercooler if that had been an option for my setup.
Not sure if I know of another American Water/Methanol company that carries a full product line, is constantly improving their product line, and sells more kits than the next 3 biggest competitors combined.
