At the request of several E-mails pertaining to my posting about NOS kit on my 2000 Lightning I’ll share what I have done and learned.

NOS does not make a specific kit for the Ford Lightning. The EFI Ford Mustang kit works perfect.

I have made over 40 dyno runs tuning my set up.

The best set up I have found to produce the best horsepower and most torque, which I feel is safe without causing a strain in the engine, is a #47 Jet within the fuel nozzle and a #55 jet within the vacuum side. This set up is producing 448.5 Horsepower to the rear wheel and 500.8 lbs of torque to the rear wheel. This gave me an extra 122 Horsepower over the stock dyno-run to the rear tires. The fuel / air mixture is 12.2, which is still a little on the rich side.

The Ford Lighting engine from the factor is set up running on the rich side to start (look at your tail pipes and I’m sure they are black as coal). After countless hours on the telephone with NOS and SVT trying to get their opinion of this application, they all agree spraying a 100 shot of nitrous into this engine would be considered a safe application. Being that the bottom of this engine is all steel, metal head gasket, aluminum heads, compression being lower for the blower to 8.5.1, and the blower turning over 2,000 rpm below red line. I personally felt this would not subject the engine cylinders to damaging pressures.

I have not had ANY detonation at all and it works very well. Hopefully this will help others with a decision of either installing a NOS kit or not. If anyone has any questions I would be more than happy to call you and personally explain my findings.

Good Luck,

Matt


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2000 White Lightning, Bell Tech 3 Inch Drop Kit, K&N Filter, 80 Cent. Air Mass, Bassani Headers And Complete exhaust System. Nitrous Oxide Kit.

 

Matt

Thanks for sharing the info....What Mods have you done to keep the rubber from spinning ?

Doug

 

Doug,

Thats the biggest problem for sure.

Just need to have slicks at the track or you will be just spinning your tires!

Matt

 

btt

 

Thanks for the info and phone call Matt.

Now where is N02boy, for the great deal on N.O.S. stuff

 

Matt,

Thanks for posting all this info. You're making me think evil thoughts. I run a small 100 shot on my '96 Cobra and it made a huge difference (100rwhp/150rwtq) over N/A.

One question for clarification...you said you're running a .047 in the "fuel side" and a .055" in the vac side. I assume you mean that you're running the .047 jet in the NOS nozzle.

Please clarify.

Thx.

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Wes Tarbox
90 LX 5.0 (10.69 @ 134.7)--597rwhp/590rwtq
96 Cobra (12.63 @ 114.5)--390rwhp/441rwtq
99 Lightning (13.20 @ 103.3)--362rwhp/444rwtq
00 Expedition XLT 5.4
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WA 2 FST,

Yes, it's a #47 jet in the NOS fuel nozzle. Sorry if I was not clear on that.

Matt