Post taken from the MLR:

NOS update on my VII
As some of you may remember I had a NOS kit from the Wizard of NOS fitted to my VII about 3 months ago. There has been a major problem over the past couple of weeks but I didn't want to post until I was fairly sure of the cause. Here are the facts so far:

A couple of weeks ago when the car was in for some routine work with BARNY (Nick) he expressed concern over the amount of blue smoke being produced.

Nick checked the plugs and did a leakdown test. This was 2% 7% 56% and 2% - so as you can imagine there was a problem.

Nick suggested I shouldn't move the car and gave me a lift home (about a 100 mile return trip on a Friday night ! )

Two pistons were found to be cracked, one badly, one not too badly. The bores are OK and hopefully the rebuild will be complete mid next week. (engine 6000 miles)

Various opinions were sought from both the NOS supplier and installer as well as independant techical opinions from people familiar with NOS & EVO's but no vested interest in my car.

The cause appears to be that I was running NOS all the way to the limiter and for periods of time. The limiter on the GTA cuts back and this left extra NOS in the cut back cylinders.... and when I kicked in again at full throttle ---- BANG

Now my my grievance is that apparently the Wizard of NOS was aware of NOS problems running to a vehicles limiter, especially those cars fitted with a hard limiter like the GTA. Unfortunately this was not passed on.

As you don't normally buy an EVO to 'pop to the shops' then I would have expected to have been told something about driving it too hard.

If you visit the NOS Wizard's site at http://www.noswizard.com you will see:



quote:
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Nitrous Systems have been working with and manufacturing
Nitrous Oxide Systems and other related products for over 20 years.
It is because of our expertise and vast experience that we can say with confidence:

Highpower Nitrous Oxide Systems will
**NOT** damage your engine!!
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I don't really want to comment any further at the moment, but like I said when I first had it installed, I am happy to let you know the bad as well as the good. Well here is the first lot of bad.

I will post more as this progresses. The installer has responded positively (so far) to my suggestion for a refund. The Wizard hasn't answered the email yet so I can't comment on his response.

BTW Feel free to pass this on to Scoobynet


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Trevor R


Teri

 

Are you running a wet or dry setup? Have you considered running propane at the same time?

 

Tear It Up

Its not my car, I just posted this on behalf of the guy by the name of Trev-R from the MLR.

If you want to ask him, go to www.lancerregister.com there is a thread under Lancer Chat about it.

Teri

 

should have never went nos

save up for a bigger turbo

 

Great advice.

Sounds like the guy was just trying to do his fellow owners a service by warning them off of a specific shop. Hindsight is 20/20.

 

what does fitted and used correctly mean? This sounds like and up to 100% kind of ad to me, it says nothing. Oh well, at least you can upgrade your rolling assembly now. Thanks for the warning.

 

Quote for Fast & Furious "Amateurs don’t use nitrous"

 

I should put a bullet in this thread. It's dead and almst a year old.

 

YES SHOOT THIS DAMN THREAD

 

If you use nitrous without a window switch you are stupid.