thanks for resizing!

I had this one done already....




a few pixels under on one and over on the other I usually dont say anything but yours works just fine!

 

I left my bottle in all the time, and never had a problem(southern VA) around 100* during the summer. Anything over a 75 shot you will need a tune & colder plugs minimum.

 

Thanks D -but is your car white or silver....makes a huge difference from a black car for in cabin temps (trunk).......read an article on a car care forum and how long wax would last with different color cars and the evap rates for the wax based on color of the car.....sliver and white scored very low numbers inside compared to the black car inside with the same temps outside the car.

 

i'm pretty sure that the company would design their bottle to withstand in cabin temps wherever they sell them (otherwise, they'll have to deal with lawsuits). comparing it to a soda can is pretty dumb, a nitrous bottle is WAY more stout than a soda can. i live in TX and know plenty of guys that leave their bottle in all the time. it gets hotter here than where you are, so i wouldn't worry about it.

 

Thanks Texotic..... I thought for sure that would be the case but have no dealing with NOS except in a medical situations......

 

i have seen pictures of cars that have been completely totaled from an exploding nitrous bottle. i'd make sure to be careful as possible.

 

Mine is silver/black leather int., but I also have a friend with a black on black 03cobra spaying a small shot, and he leaves his hooked up all the time as well. So, its up to you.

 

The label on my NOS bottle says not to store it at temperatures over 120 degrees (NOS is pretty conservative, in my opinion). This article says the max is 130 degrees:

http://www.dragstuff.com/techarticle...e-heaters.html

Honestly, I think a team of lawyers wrote the 120 degree warning on my bottle. The safety blow off isn't designed to go off until 3,000 psi. The bottle is only at 1050 psi at 110 degrees. Personally, I don't think you have anything to worry about.

I didn't have a problem in 100+ degree weather here in Virginia this summer. The trunk stays colder than the rest of the car, since it has no windows and probably less insulation. Just think about it, when you use one of those windshield sun visors the car is significantly colder, than when you don't.

A lot of the exploding nitrous pictures on the internet are a little suspect. One circulating is a Nissan, whose owner installed a pressure triggered heater and left it on. Personally, I'd never install a heater like that, thermostats are a lot safer. Anyway, the heater never "saw" the properly pressure, since his bottle was closed, which means it kept heating the bottle until it reached a dangerous pressure.

Secondly, the bottle should not fail before the blow off disc does. That leads me to think a few people improperly installed theirs. Or they heated the bottle with a torch (people apparently still do this), possibly weakening the aluminum, which means the bottle could no longer support the pressures it was designed to take. In that case, the bottle ruptures at a pressure too low to rupture the safety blow off.

Either way a blow down tube and adapter are cheap, pretty easy to install and an important safety feature.

 

jesus, sorry i made a dumb comparison about pressure in a bottle. its no secret that a nitrous bottle is stronger than a coke bottle, i was just making a point about what happens when you overload a container with pressure beyond its pressure retaining capabilities.

and since you think i said something dumb (which i'm sure you never have) i think your user name is dumb! hahaha, i win, you lose, LOSER.

 

i leave my bottle in my car all the time.. in the summer it can get up to about 105 degrees outside... i never had a blow down tube at that time and the pressure never got dangerously high... i have a blow down tube now for added safety plus you need it at the track. safe up to 3000 psi. i have a black car with tint and black leather. you should be fine with a blow down tube. i would also strongly recommend a custom dyno tune with nitrous. i had a mail order tune and ran it a few times at the track before my custom dyno tune. turned out to be running lean on the top end. lucky i didn't mess my motor up.