Honestly stay away from nitrous. There are "safer" methods of running it but no "completely safe" ways. You WILL ruin a nice car if you run nitrous. It beats the piss out of every component of the car. I know this because 5 days ago i blew the axle tube out of my rearend. I think you can buy a paxton blower for a little over a grand, bolt it on and never refill a bottle.
The horsepower beats on the car. If its stock and you crank up the hp/torque, regardless of the method, things will break!.
Absolutely correct. However I'll add that any power adder is super easy to get carried away with, which is where most people get into trouble. A 75 shot is fun. Wait til you get a 150. 150 gets old...gotta upgrade to a 300 with foggers. Same with boost. 6 psi is awesome. 12 is much better. 18 is kaboom but it was great for a while
With a truly naturally aspirated engine (no nitrous, blower, turbo) it's significantly harder to make crazy power with a push of a button or turn of a screw, so it's therefore harder to tear things up short of replacing the engine with something more powerful...which most of the time people plan for the extra power capability in the chassis/drivetrain while planning the engine. The only exeption is methanol. Meth by itself (as a race fuel) in theory is easier on parts because it burns slower and cooler but its' been proven that more engines fail on methanol than on gas. Same for nitromethane. Throw a match in nitro and the match goes out. Compress it and ignite it and it becomes about like liquid TNT once it's lit off-which takes an act of congress. That's why TF cars use 40+ amps to each spark plug. Anything less won't ignite it consistently which will lift heads, break rods off, bust wrist pins, cranks, blocks, etc. Tried messing with the stuff in an ATV drag application. Works but easy to bust parts. Had a stack of burned/broken stuff to prove that I didn't know what I was doing but when I got it lined out, it was wicked for no more than it was. 50% nitro 50% Methanol.
Third, it's absolutely no fun.
Nitrous is no fun? This is news to me. Maybe filling bottles is no fun, but it is easy to forget about that when you crack the bottle open on a 175 shot with a 5 speed its pretty fun.
Nitrous is no fun? This is news to me. Maybe filling bottles is no fun, but it is easy to forget about that when you crack the bottle open on a 175 shot with a 5 speed its pretty fun.
filling bottles isnt to bad if you plan ahead and do it with heat transfer...
as for it being no fun... only people who dont find it fun are those who dont use it!
no blower or turbo car in X275 have gotten close to the 60ft we have on the bottle...
1.161 is DOWN THERE!
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