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Old 05-26-07, 02:57 AM
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Smile My custom methanol setup

I bought the coolingmist kit on ebay. It was like $200 shipped. Anyways, I tapped it to the washer tank and my MAP-ECU triggers the pump relay to fire when manifold pressure hits 3PSI. I set it up so the methanol sprays right in the intake manifold. So far so good, I just got new injectors and fuel pump so I'm about to crank up the boost here in a few days. Hopefully everything is still gonna run smoothly

I had to do some ghetto rigging to the stock vacuum line that went to the intake manifold. Pix below











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what are you using to monitor the intake air temps? Any kind of adjustments on this so you can actually lean out a bit? I'm running a meth injection on my turbo truck but it was a kit offered by STS.
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um hellz yeah! very nice!
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Originally Posted by speedaddic
what are you using to monitor the intake air temps? Any kind of adjustments on this so you can actually lean out a bit? I'm running a meth injection on my turbo truck but it was a kit offered by STS.
Well, my intercooler is so damn big that my intake temps are always within 2-3 degrees of the outside air temperature even in the hot Texas summer. I hook up a OBD2 scanner to my laptop and link it to the car when I want to monitor the OEM sensors. I really should install an extra sensor somewhere in the manifold after the methanol spray to get a better idea of how cold it actually gets in there. As for the fuel maps, I tuned it so it starts pulling fuel above 3psi. The MAP-ECU is really easy to tune. Just select a group or cell area and subtract a certain percent and you're done. The MAP-ECU2 actually has 2 separate maps that you can toggle with a switch. That way you can switch between 2 fuel maps and switch it to the no spray fuel map when the methanol tank is empty.
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I know a lot of LS1 guys that are running the windshield wiper fluid for meth...what are you using? Straight meth or mixed?
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