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Re: Nitrous Oxide on BMW's

>....My plan is to place the Nitrous injector in the intake pipe before the AFM.
>This way, I can just change the Intake when I'm not using Nos. Would nitrous 
>affect any sensor reading I should be concerned about? 

Ruell-

The AFM is the Air Flow Meter, right?  As I understand it, BMW uses a hot wire 
sensor to measure air flow.  The wire is heated to a specific temperature, and 
the amount of voltage required to maintain that temperature is proportional to 
the air mass flowing past it.  If you put nitrous up-stream of the AFM, the 
cooling effect of the expanding nitrous (from liquid to vapor) would play havoc 
with this sensor.

If the AFM does not work on the hot wire principle, my whole explanation is 
moot.  If I'm wrong, could someone please explain to me how it _does_ work?

Regards,
Jim Moran

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