i got my hands on a snowsperformance system. I have no paper work on it as far as install. Im not for sure were i should of posted this. Eny help with helping me thru this would be great. Thanks

 

Go to Snow Performance: Products. Click on what system it is that you have, scroll down to the bottom, and click on the "i" icon next to the application. That will bring up a pdf file.

 

well i got it installed. What would be a good setting for me to start with? i tryed start psi at 8lb full 22lb. This made my motor sound pretty noisey ? is that a bad thing. after i heard the noise. I went to 12lb start 22full an of corse this just made the motor noisey at about 14 lb. i guess my ? is should there be eny diff in sound or not? I did notice a good bit of a drop in my egts but i dont want to hert eny thing. the truck is in my sig if that helps. Thanks for eny info

 

Which system do you have? Does the noise sound like "dieseling"/knocking? If so, you may be experiencing "quenching", where there is too much water injected into the cylinder and it is dropping the combustion point of the fuel down to the point that it is igniting too late in the compression cycle. Check out which nozzle you have installed as the primary (if your system has varying sizes), and perhaps try setting your system to inject at a higher turbo boost pressure than 12 PSI. Also, did you check for a good spray pattern while installing it, before you finished installing your intake maniford, to ensure that the water/meth was atomized well enough. What is your water-to-methanol ratio in the injection tank?

 

well i bought the system used . the fella i got it off of has know idea of witch nozzles the are. it almost sounds like more of a knocking. i just got done with a trip since i took it up to 12lb start, It seemed to help some. Im useing the ol cheap advance auto blue wiper fluid. its deff not 50/50 . But i guess they say its safe? Whith my box turned up on 4 it seems to like it better. I just dont want to hurt eny thing what would you say i should set the bottom at. I thought when i installed this thing that i could set it at a low setting and it would kinda controll it self. But maybee the nozles are big. would it be safe for it to kick in all the way at my 22lb setting or will this hurt te truck. thanks for the info but i do understand it would be hard for some one to help me. Because im not even for sure on what set up snows i got. Does the pump have some sort of number on it to know what stage i have well thanks agian.

 

I'd call up Snow (866)365-2762 and describe to them what you have, and they should be more than happy to explain which system you have. That knocking noise is "quenching", I'm almost certain. Try setting your activation at around 15-18 PSI and see if that helps. Just how many total nozzles came with that system? If you have just one nozzle installed, and it is the "power" nozzle, that's probably (definately) a bit much for how low your PSI is set at. Quenching it to be avoided, unless you are in the market for new rods, anyway.

Blue -20F washer fluid is 30%-33% methanol, enough for a decent boost and adequate EGT reductions for average towing. If I were you, I'd pull that nozzle out of your intake and take a good look at it. If the nozzle tip is anything bigger than a pin, like say the size of a toothpick, you may have a power nozzle installed, or perhaps an intermediate nozzle set up for something that pushes more than 22-ish PSI. This all depends on which system you have in the first place. I'd get ready to describe everything you can to the Snow guys (pump part#, number of nozzles, container size (if you got one), number of solenoids, etc...). This will give them the best opportunuty to be in a position to help you.

Keep us posted, I'm interesting in hearing more about this. Best O' Luck!

 

iv got too nozzles, the pump, an a box that has low pressure set an high pressure set an id say a plastic tank about an half a gallon. iv called snows twice an got a desk person that said they would have a teck give me a call but nothin yeti called mon an wed so i guess im kinda goin on this thing word of mouth well thanks. I dont want to buy rods . i took it up to 22ish and 36ish the number settings on the box is not a real good set up.But the boy i got this from said he was phusshing some serious fuel and it cooled him about 300 deg ?

 

I have the 1st Gen starting to spray at ~18psi w/a progressive controller and that seems to work well. I have the Commonrail spraying at ~25 with a hobbes switch. It seems to want to quench at anything under 20psi for some reason. It sounds like that is what you are doing - quenching. Anything under 15psi is not good. If you are making big boost numbers, 35psi or more start at 20 or better. It doesn't need to be spraying any lower than that.

 

thanks it sounds like i started out way to low. How about the full setting

 

It depends on your boost range and what you are doing with the truck. I use a progressive controller starting at a lower psi on the 1st Gen because that is my tow vehicle. It will get into the W/M on hard pulls pushing lower flow rates for longer periods around 20 psi. It peaks at 30psi. The CR OTOH, is more of a play truck so the only time I really want it is with the hammer down and then I want it full on anyway, so I just use the switch.