HOW TO: activate nitrous with VTEC

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This is a very simple way to set up your nitrous to activate with your VTEC. It's safer than a pushbutton or throttle-body (WOT) switch, and it's a lot simpler to operate. Once you have this set up all you do is open your bottle and flip the switch. As soon as VTEC activates, it'll send power to the nitrous and fuel solenoids, and then as soon as you let off the throttle (and VTEC disengages) the nitrous will disengage. I would generally arm the system after my burnout and before I staged, so that as soon as I launched nitrous would kick in. Since VTEC won't engage when you aren't rolling, I could still launch off my rev limiter and not worry about spraying nitrous while I was sitting on the line.

What you're going to do is go to somewhere like AutoZone or Oreilly and purchase a 4 or 5 pin relay - can be either one. I believe they have them listed as a 'horn relay). They're like 5 bucks. If you get a 5 pin relay, you will NOT be using pin 87a (the pin in the very middle of the relay). Wire the relay up as follows:

85: to chassis ground
86: to VTEC wire, with a switch inline (this will be your arming switch)
87: to the positive wires on your nitrous and fuel solenoids
30: to a 12 volt + source (such as your positive battery terminal)

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ok i did it like this but i put the vtec wire on 85 instead of splicing it in with 86.

like in this picture, instead of micro switch i put the vtec [A4 obd1] from the ecu.
wetkit.gif



is that ok?

also

my toggle switch has two leads 1 says ON [top] the other OFF [bottom]
which one is the 12v and which one is the ground?
 
ohh and i'm adding the LED to 87

red wire to 87
black wire to ground
 
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ok i did it like this but i put the vtec wire on 85 instead of splicing it in with 86.

like in this picture, instead of micro switch i put the vtec [A4 obd1] from the ecu.
wetkit.gif



is that ok?

also

my toggle switch has two leads 1 says ON [top] the other OFF [bottom]
which one is the 12v and which one is the ground?

I don't know if that's going to work. 85 needs to be a constant ground, and 86 needs to be a switched power.

If your toggle switch only has 2 pins, then nothing needs to be grounded. The 'on' and 'off' are for the switch itsself, not for the pins. Put the switch inline with the signal from the VTEC.
 
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