FF or RWD

[Parry]

Originally posted by s15-spec-R
WOW 500HP FROM NOS WOW THATS AMAZING LOL HEHEHE umm no...not really..and this is all on that truck?*eugh*lol haha 945hp....

You have identified as the only idiot in this thread number than GM-Racer...

I thought he was saying NOS as in "New Old Stock", as in parts made back in the day and never used or sold and then made reavailable.

Even if he is talking about using nitrous (it's not "NAWS", ever.) then spraying for 500 horse is fully possible on a big block chevy. Expensive, and he's not, but that's not the point.

Ahem, anyway.

[GRiDRaceTech]

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Yeah. It's called search. I don't think this topic has been covered less than 20 times.

[boygenius_89]

i could be that i just dont get how nos works but isnt the point of nos to boost your horse power at the flywheel dramatically with the push of a button?? and how on earth would it boost your hp if the only time it does anything is when you push the button???? this could just be me but from what i know bout nos you should reach 140-160 realitively quick (*exageration / like half a sec. duh*) so i cant see why that would do anything to help you car out. and im sure theres a downside to your engine by putting nos in there.

[Parry]

Uhhhhhh...

Nitrous is a power adder. It really is fairly simple (I'm going to skip over a lot of nitty gritty technical details that you would need to know to use it, so don't shoot me.)

Nitrous oxidie, or N20, will split chemicly when heated. This means that when you spray it into the intake of an internal combustion motor it will be sucked into the cylenders where it will seperate during the compression stroke and oxigenate the air/fuel mixture in the cylender. Because this air is now so oxygen rich you are (and will need to, or you're going to go waaay lean and break something) able to combust much more fuel and thus make more power.

The point of nitrous is not to "reach 140-160 really quick", it is to make more power. More power makes cars faster.

Used properly and with realistic power goals in mind as well as proper tuning and instalation it will not blow up/wear out/otherwise destroy your motor. Screw things up and run it very lean and you WILL pay the piper.

And, again...it's nitrous, not NOS. NOS is a company.

That was the super duper Reader's Digest version...

[boygenius_89]

yes i know wat nitrous is and does but is it on all the time or do you have to do the button thing. and wouldnt this kind of f-up your motor during shifts due to the instant redline you get when hiting the N2O?? and im not tring to be annoying or oblivious but this nitrous stuff always appeared to me as a thing to showoff during car shows or to make movies like fast and the furious seem more exiting. so please dont get pissed cuz ppl know less bout stuff than you, after all this the noobs board.

[Parry]

I'm not pissed. You'd know if I was pissed off...

Anyway, most people I know trigger it with a wide open throttle switch. You turn on the bottle, arm the system, and when the petal hits the metal the nitrous hits the motor and things usually get louder and faster. Some people get fancier, running a progressive controller so that it feeds in the nitrous as you get onto the throttle. Because you let off the throttle it doesn't continue spraying when you shift.

Steering wheel buttons and emptying entire tanks in 5 seconds with a 2.0l 4 popper is all the stuff of the movies. For example, my friend was getting about 10 1/4 mile runs out of his bottle on a small block chevy, which can drink down a lot more nitrous a lot quicker than, say, an Eclipse

[boygenius_89]

ooooh i see
my pops was telling me bout when back in the old days when n2o was for bigblock american muscle cars to get them off with the lack of low end during drags. by the way my pops drove a 80 something corrola anyways i didnt know you can actually get that stuff working with the trottle like that so thx

and by the way i had ppl with like 10000 post bashing on me for an acually not-so-stupid question and i ended up spasing on them and getting kick off the forums like thrice. so thats my lil defence right there that this is a noobs board and if ppl w/ 100000 post are such hot shots then why on earth are they posting in noob boards. not (reffering to you)

[Parry]

Built big block's don't usually lack power anywhere . Even if they have somewhat soft low ends, higher-stall torque converters help get them in the power right off the line. Usually you don't want to hit the nitrous at overly low rpm...thing's have a tendency to break when you do.

[boygenius_89]

oooooooookay
are you like some kinda spokes person for ford or chevy or like gm or something

"Built big block's don't usually lack power anywhere"

and what i was trying to say was that nitrous was original developed for bigblock american cars, not ricers and certainly not friggin trucks.

[Parry]

Not really.

What makes you think the v8's in trucks are different from the ones in the cars? Because they're not, outside of some tuning, exhaust, intake type differences. They are the same basic motor.

Any motor that will build 400 ft-lbs at 2500 rpm doesn't exactly "lack low end torque" in my book.

Nitrous was first used in airplanes.

[boygenius_89]

ok
you got me with the 2f2f nitro planes

you win

[Parry]

uhhh....that was back in WWII. A little before things were getting 2 Fast and 2 Furious.

[boygenius_89]

man you take EVERTHING to seriously man.

that 2f2f thing was a joke

chilll playa chilll

[boygenius_89]

whoa i said man twice in one sentence

[Parry]

life is serious.